INUENISSE, inuenisse
Sounds Like: in-weh-NIS-seh
Translations: to have found, to have discovered, to have come upon
From the root: INUENIO
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is the perfect active infinitive form of the Latin verb 'inuenio', meaning 'to find' or 'to discover'. It is used to express an action that was completed in the past relative to the main verb of the sentence. For example, 'dixit se inuenisse' would mean 'he said that he had found'.
Inflection: Perfect Active Infinitive
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, INUENIO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- INUENERUNT — they found, they discovered, they invented
- INUENIET — will find, will discover, will invent, will come upon
- INUENIT — he found, she found, it found, he discovered, she discovered, it discovered, he invented, she invented, it invented
- INUENTUM — discovery, invention, a discovery, an invention, found thing, discovered thing, invented thing
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