# penitus
## Latin
### Etymology 1

From the root of penus (“food, provisions”) and penes (“in the control of”). De Vaan reconstructs an extended stem *pen-et- as the source of penes, penitus and penetrō. The adverb appears to be formed as pen-o-/pen-u- (root of the noun penus) +‎ -tus (adverb-forming suffix).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpe.ni.tus/, [ˈpɛnɪt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpe.ni.tus/, [ˈpɛːnit̪us]

#### Adverb

penitus (not comparable)
* inwardly, inside
    Synonyms: intrō, intrā
    Antonyms: forās, forīs, extrīnsecus
* (from) within
* thoroughly, (not) at all
    Synonyms: omnīnō, prorsus, funditus
* within, far, far down, far away, deeply
    Synonym: altē
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.509–512:cum subitō Aenēās concursū accēdere magnō Anthea Sergestumque videt fortemque Cloanthum, Teucrōrumque aliōs, āter quōs aequore turbō dispulerat penitusque aliās āvēxerat ōrās.When suddenly Aeneas sees, approaching through the massive assembly, Antheus, Sergestus, and brave Cloanthus, and other Trojans, whom the dark whirlwind had scattered in the sea and had carried far away to other shores.

##### Derived terms

* penetrō

#### Adjective

penitus (feminine penita, neuter penitum, comparative penitior, superlative penitissimus); first/second-declension adjective
* inner, inward

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### Etymology 2

From pēnis (“tail”) +‎ -ītus.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /peːˈniː.tus/, [peːˈniːt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /peˈni.tus/, [peˈniːt̪us]

#### Adjective

pēnītus (feminine pēnīta, neuter pēnītum); first/second-declension adjective
* (rare) having a tail
    Synonym: caudātus

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “penus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 458-459
* ↑ Rosén, H. (2007). "A Latin adverbialization: -(i)tus from separative-locative to manner adverb." Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics, 120, 215–230. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40849301

### Further reading

* “penitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “penitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* penitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a thing has been vividly impressed on our[TR1] memory: aliquid in memoria nostra penitus insidet to have a thorough grasp of a subject: penitus percipere et comprehendere aliquid (De Or. 1. 23. 108) a thing is deeply impressed on the mind: aliquid in animo haeret, penitus insedit or infixum est to impress a thing on one's memory, mind: aliquid animo mentique penitus mandare (Catil. 1. 11. 27) to be well acquainted with the views of philosophers: praecepta philosophorum (penitus) percepta habere he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio ei penitus inhaeret to destroy superstition root and branch: superstitionem radicitus or penitus evellere