ingens

Traditionally from in- (“un-, not”) +‎ gens (“kind, family, race”); something that goes beyond what is natural for its kind. Sometimes linked to Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, from an extended form of the oblique stem *m̥ǵh₂- ; this would make it cognate to magnus, Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas) and Sanskrit महत् (mahat)[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ɡens/, [ˈɪŋ.ɡẽːs]

ingēns (genitive ingentis); third declension

1. huge, vast, enormous
2. immoderate, exorbitant
3. extraordinary, unnatural
4. (figuratively) mighty, powerful

Third declension.

• comparative: ingentior, superlative: ingentissimus

• The ablative singular also appears as ingente.

• Italian: ingente
• Spanish: ingente

• ingens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ingens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ingens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a numerous army: ingens, maximus exercitus (not numerosus)
    
  • to cause great slaughter, carnage: ingentem caedem edere (Liv. 5. 13)