infectus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈfek.tus/, [ĩːˈfɛkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfek.tus/, [iɱˈfɛkt̪us]

From Proto-Italic *enfaktos. Equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).

īnfectus (feminine īnfecta, neuter īnfectum); first/second-declension adjective

1. not done, undone, unfinished

   Synonyms: imperfectus, incohātus

   Antonyms: complētus, absolūtus, perfectus, factus, dēfūnctus

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:

     Nusquam infecta re discederent

     Never withdrew from an unfinished enterprise

2. impossible

First/second-declension adjective.

Perfect passive participle of īnficiō (“I dip, I dunk; I dye, I stain; I corrupt, I taint”).

īnfectus (feminine īnfecta, neuter īnfectum); first/second-declension participle

1. dipped, dunked, submerged.
2. dyed, stained, having been dyed.
3. corrupted, poisoned, tainted, having been tainted.

First/second-declension adjective.

• Catalan: infecte
• French: infect

īnfectus m (genitive īnfectūs); fourth declension

1. a dyeing

Fourth-declension noun.

• “infectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infectus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• infectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to no purpose; ineffectually: infecta re (Liv. 9. 32)