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Translation

immortal, undying

Examples

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The immortal gods protect men.

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The soul is immortal.

immortalem .

He was seeking immortal glory.

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He wrote about immortal things.

immortale .

Nothing immortal remains on earth.

Immortalis, immortale is a third declension adjective of two terminations: one form for masculine and feminine, a separate neuter in -e. It is an i-stem, so the ablative singular is immortali, the genitive plural immortalium and the neuter plural immortalia. The prefix is in- assimilated before m, the same negation as in infelix or iniuria.

"Di immortales" is a fixed exclamation, roughly "good God", and it is far commoner in Cicero than any philosophical use of the word. The other place you meet it is the pair with mortalis: gods against men, the deathless against the dying. Church Latin keeps it and adds the soul to the list of things that qualify, which classical usage generally does not.

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This word is part of lesson 19.