nesapius

Latin

Etymology

From ne- + sapiō + -us.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛˈsa.pi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [neˈs̬aː.pi.us]

Noun

nesapius m (genitive nesapiī or nesapī); second declension

1. (hapax legomenon) an ignoramus, know-nothing
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 50.5:

     Et ne me putetis nesapium esse, valde bene scio, unde primum Corinthea [vasa] nata sint.

     Don't start thinking I am such ignoramus, I know perfectly well the origins of Corinthean vases.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nesapius	nesapiī
genitive	nesapiī nesapī1	nesapiōrum
dative	nesapiō	nesapiīs
accusative	nesapium	nesapiōs
ablative	nesapiō	nesapiīs
vocative	nesapie	nesapiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Further reading

• “nesapius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nesapius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• nesapius, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011