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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inn?tus (“inborn”), perfect active participle of inn?scor (“be born in, grow up in”), from in (“in, at on”) + n?scor (“be born”); see natal, native.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ne?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

innate (not comparable)

1. Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
2. (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
3. Instinctive; coming from instinct.
   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 3

     As if she held the clue to something secret in his breast, of the nature of which he was hardly informed himself. As if she had an innate knowledge of one jarring and discordant string within him, and her very breath could sound it.

4. (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

Usage notes

• Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.

Synonyms

• (existing or having existed since birth): See also Thesaurus:innate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• a priori
• intuitive.

Verb

innate (third-person singular simple present innates, present participle innating, simple past and past participle innated)

1. (obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.

Translations

References

• innate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• innate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• annite, ante in, nanite, tannie

Italian

Adjective

innate f pl

1. feminine plural of innato

Latin

Participle

inn?te

1. vocative masculine singular of inn?tus

English

Etymology

From Latin inertia (“lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence”), from iners (“unskilled, inactive”), from in- (“without, not”) + ars (“skill, art”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n??.??/, /??n?.??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??

Noun

inertia (countable and uncountable, plural inertias or inertiae or inertiæ)

1. (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
2. (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.

   • Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia.

   • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

     City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.

3. (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

Synonyms

• (unwillingness to take action): idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness

Derived terms

• inertial
• inertia welding
• moment of inertia

Related terms

• inert
• inertness

Translations

Further reading

• inertia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inertia in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• inertia at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• iranite

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?inerti?/, [?ine?r?t?i?]
• Rhymes: -i?
• Syllabification: i?ner?ti?a

Noun

inertia

1. inertia

   Synonyms: hitaus, vitka, jatkavuus

Declension

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enartj?. Related to iners (“without skill; inactive”), from in- (“not”) + ars (“art, skill”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i?ner.ti.a/, [??n?rt?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i?ner.t?si.a/, [i?n?rt??s?i?]

Noun

inertia f (genitive inertiae); first declension

1. want of art or skill, unskillfulness, ignorance
2. (by extension) inactivity, idleness, laziness, indolence

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• iners
• inersit?d?
• inerticulus

Descendants

References

• inertia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inertia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inertia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• inertia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

inertia m (definite singular inertiaen, indefinite plural inertiaer, definite plural inertiaene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by inerti