(adjective) : ignōtus, a, um, in-gnotus, notus.
* Pass., unknown.
* In gen.: quamquam ad ignotum arbitrum me appellis: si adhibebit fidem, Etsi est ignotus, notus: si non, notus ignotissimus est,Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 104 sq.: dubitabitis, judices, quin ab hoc ignotissimo Phryge nobilissimum civem vindicetis?Cic. Fl. 17, 40: ignoti homines et repentini quaestores celeriter facti sunt,id. Brut. 64, 242: homo ignotus et novus,id. Rep. 1, 1: nos pluribus ignotissimi gentibus,id. ib. 1, 17: longinqua eoque ignotior gens,Liv. 5, 32, 5: procedam in aciem adversus ignotos inter se ignorantesque,Liv. 21, 43, 18; cf. § 13: omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte,Hor. C. 4, 9, 27: jus applicationis obscurum sane et ignotum patefactum atque illustratum est,Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 177: obscurioribus et ignotioribus verbis,Quint. 7, 3, 13; cf. id. 8, 3, 73; 8, 6, 74: haec nova et ignota ratio,Cic. Rep. 1, 16: alter (dies) in vulgus ignotus,id. Att. 9, 5, 2: ille tibi non ignotus cursus animi mei,id. ib. 5, 15, 1: terrae,unknown, distant,Tib. 1, 3, 3; ib. 39; cf.: nobilis ignoto diffusus consule Bacchus, unknown, remote with respect to time, i. e. old, Luc. 4, 379.—Subst.: ignō-tum, i, n., that which is unknown.— Prov.: ignoti nulla cupido,Ov. A. A. 3, 397.
* Act. (cf. the Gr. ἄγνωστος), unacquainted with a thing, ignorant of (very rare for ignarus, insciens, inscitus): ignotae iteris sumus, Naev. ap. Non. 124, 28: simulacra ignotis nota faciebant,Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7: producere ad ignotos (aliquem),Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 75; Auct. Her. 3, 6, 12; cf.: ignotos fallit, notis est derisui,Phaedr. 1, 11, 2; so, ignoti, faciem ejus cum intuerentur, contemnebant,Nep. Ages. 8, 1.

ignōtus, a, um, Part., from ignosco.

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