Iners, inertis, om. g. Ci. Without science or craft: ydle: slouthful: not occupied: nothing liuely: dul and foolish: without coutage or spiritmot able to helpe icselfe: vnprositable: barraine.Iners & ignauus.Cic.Idle and slonthfull.Iners membris. Plinius. Not able to helpe it selfe wyth his limes.Inertes opera amici.Plaut.Friends not ready and willing to doe pleasure.Ad repugnandum inertes. Plin. Not linely & quicke to reliste.Admissarius iners in veoerem. Col. A stalion that is nothing hote and couragious to coner mares.Non inertissimus homo, Vide NON.Aetas iners. Tibul. Dlde age.Anima iners. Oui. A cowarde: one of small courage to doe any thing: an idle lubber.Annus iners.Ouid.An ydle yeare wherein nothing is done.Brachia inertia.Ouid.Lither armes.Bruma iners. Hor. Winter making men lither & ydle.Caro iners. Horat. Vnsauourie fleshe without good taste or smacke.Corda inertia, Vir.Faise and feeble hartes.Corpora inertia.Virg.Lither ydle bodies.Frigns iners.Ouid.Slonthful coldnes.IgnanÛ atque iners genus interrogationis. Ci. An vnsanourie and vnprositable kind of question.Glacies iners. Hor. Glebæ inertes. Vir. Barrafne clottes.Humor iners, cui profluens opponitur. Vir. Standing liquor that runneth not.Ingenium iners.Ouid.A lither nature.Oculos stupor vrget inertes. Vir. Inertissimum & desidiosissimum otium. Ci. Most lither and slouthful ydlenes.Pectus iners.Ouid.A dul harte.Pondus iners.Ouid.A great lither lubber without spirit and quicknes.Inertes querelæ.Liu.Vnprositable complaints.Sal iners. Plin. Dead and vnsauorie salt.Segnitia inertiilima.Cic.Erceedyng lither slouthfulnes.Senectus iners. Sen. Lither old age without spirit & liuelines.Somni inertes.Ouid.Tempus abibit iners.Ouid.Time shal passe without doing a ny thing.Terra iners. Hor. The earth vnmoueable.Truncus iners iacui. Oui. I lay as a dead stoche without life.Verfus inertes. Hor. Rude verses negligently made.Vita iners. Tibul.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĭners, ertis (abl. inerti, Plin. 16, 43, 83, 227: inerte, Ov. P. 1, 5, 8; 1, 10, 14), adj. [2. in-ars], unskilled in any art or trade, without skill, unskilful (class.): ut perhibetur iners, ars in quo non erit ulla, Lucil. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 158: artes, quibus qui carebant, inertes a majoribus nominabantur, Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 115: versus, artless ( = sine arte et gravitate facti), Hor. A. P. 445.—In partic., = iners dicendi, arte dicendi carens: homo non inertissimus, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 67. — II. In gen., inactive, idle, indolent, sluggish, inert.A. Of living beings: linguā factiosi, inertes operā, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 13: silvicolae homines bellique inertes, Naev. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5, 9: gerro, iners, etc., Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 10: vicissent inprobos boni fortes inertes, Cic. Sest. 19, 43: senectus, id. de Sen. 11, 36: homo inertior, ignavior proferri non potest, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, 192: pecus, Verg. A. 4, 158; cf.: fera membris, Plin. 8, 21, 32, 77.— B. Of inanim. and abstr. things: inertissimum et desidiosissimum otium, Cic. Agr. 2, 33: inertissima segnitia, id. Fin. 1, 2, 5: ignavum et iners genus interrogationis,
empty
,
idle
, id. Fat. 13, 29: aquae,
stagnant waters
, Ov. H. 18, 121: stomachus, i. e.
without digestion
, id. P. 1, 10, 14: glaebae,
that bear nothing
,
without cultivation
, Verg. G. 1, 94: terra,
motionless
,
immovable
, Hor. C. 3, 4, 45: horae,
leisure hours
, id. S. 2, 6, 61: tempus, Ov. P. 1, 15, 44: Brutus castigator lacrimarum atque inertium querellarum, Liv. 1, 59, 4.— Of food, without flavor, insipid: caro, Hor. S. 2, 4, 41: blitum iners videtur, ac sine sapore, aut acrimonia ulla, Plin. 20, 22, 93, 252: sal, id. 31, 7, 39, 82: vita, inactive, quiet, Tib. 1, 1, 5. — Poet., causative, rendering idle or inactive: frigus, Ov. M. 8, 790: somni, id. Am. 2, 10, 19. — Hence, adv.: ĭnerter, and sup. inertissime, Charis. 165 P.