Meaning of nefastus | Babel Free
[nɛˈfaːs.tʊs]Definitions
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on which judgment could not be pronounced or assemblies of the people be held adjective, declension-1, declension-2
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contrary to the sacred rites or to religion; irreligious, impious; wicked, profane, abandoned; unlucky, inauspicious; hurtful adjective, declension-1, declension-2, figuratively
Equivalents
Examples
“Ille et nefasto te posuit die...”
"Whoever planted you that cursed day..." (Horace, Ode II.13)
“Quid intactum nefasti liquimus?”
"What have we, in our impiety, left inviolate?" (Horace, Ode I.35)
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.