invius

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ via +‎ -us.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.wi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiɱ.vi.us]

Adjective

invius (feminine invia, neuter invium); first/second-declension adjective

1. impassable, inaccessible, impenetrable
2. trackless, pathless, without a road or way through
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.151:

     Postquam altōs ventum in montīs atque invia lustra, [...].

     After they came to the mountain heights and pathless forest lairs [of prey], [...].

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	invius	invia	invium		inviī	inviae	invia
genitive	inviī	inviae	inviī		inviōrum	inviārum	inviōrum
dative	inviō	inviae	inviō		inviīs
accusative	invium	inviam	invium		inviōs	inviās	invia
ablative	inviō	inviā	inviō		inviīs
vocative	invie	invia	invium		inviī	inviae	invia

References

• “invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "invius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “invius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.