inertia
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): /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/, /ɪˈnɝ.ʃə/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃə
Noun
inertia (countable and uncountable, plural inertias or inertiae or inertiæ)
- (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
- (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
- Carlyle
- 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.
- Carlyle
- (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
Translations
in physics
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unwillingness to take action
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Further reading
Finnish
Declension
Inflection of inertia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | inertia | inertiat | |
genitive | inertian | inertioiden inertioitten | |
partitive | inertiaa | inertioita | |
illative | inertiaan | inertioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | inertia | inertiat | |
accusative | nom. | inertia | inertiat |
gen. | inertian | ||
genitive | inertian | inertioiden inertioitten inertiainrare | |
partitive | inertiaa | inertioita | |
inessive | inertiassa | inertioissa | |
elative | inertiasta | inertioista | |
illative | inertiaan | inertioihin | |
adessive | inertialla | inertioilla | |
ablative | inertialta | inertioilta | |
allative | inertialle | inertioille | |
essive | inertiana | inertioina | |
translative | inertiaksi | inertioiksi | |
instructive | — | inertioin | |
abessive | inertiatta | inertioitta | |
comitative | — | inertioineen |
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /iˈner.ti.a/, [ɪˈnɛr.ti.a]
Noun
inertia f (genitive inertiae); first declension
- want of art or skill, unskillfulness, ignorance
- (by extension) inactivity, idleness, laziness, indolence
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | inertia | inertiae |
Genitive | inertiae | inertiārum |
Dative | inertiae | inertiīs |
Accusative | inertiam | inertiās |
Ablative | inertiā | inertiīs |
Vocative | inertia | inertiae |
Related terms
- iners
- inersitūdō
- 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
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