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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 in potentia Potentially; in posse but not in esse. in propria persona By the person themselves; often used when a defendant is representing themselves in court without an attorney. in puris naturalibus In a purely natural state; naked. inquiet To disquiet. inquietude A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous. inquiline An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. inquinate To pollute or make dirty. inquination defilement;pollution; stain or impurity inquirendo An authority to inquire. inquirent Making enquiry; questioning. inquisitrix A female inquisitor. in re In the matter of; with regard to. in rem Against a thing (such as property) rather than a person. insalutary Not salutary or wholesome; bad for the health. insanable Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable. insatiability The condition of being insatiable insatiety insatiableness insaturable Not capable of being saturated. insculp To engrave; to carve; to sculpt. insecable indivisible (literal or figurative) insectation pursuit; harassment; persecution insectile of, or pertaining to insects inseminable Able to be inseminated or impregnated. in sequence Sequentially, one after another. inserve To be useful for a purpose, or to somsone inservient Conducive; instrumental. insession The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. insessorial pertaining to a member of the Order Insessores, or perching birds; perching or designed for perching insidiate To lie in ambush for. insidiator Someone who lies in ambush, or plots insignificative Not expressing meaning in silico In computer simulation or in virtual reality. insimulate To accuse. insinuant Insinuating; insinuative. insinuator One who insinuates. insipience stupidity; folly in situ In its original position or place. insociable Not sociable or companionable. insolate To dry in, or expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure. insolency The quality of being insolent. insomnious restless; sleepless in specie In respect to kind inspective Engaged in inspection; involving inspection. insperse To sprinkle; to scatter. inspersion The act of sprinkling. inspiratrix A female inspirator. in statu nascendi Nascent; emerging but not yet fully formed. instaurate To renew or renovate. instauration A restoration after decay or dilapidation; a renewal; a repair. instimulate To stimulate; to excite. institorial Relating to an agent or factor. institutor One who institutes something. institutrix A female institutor. instructrix A female instructor. insuavity Lack of suavity; unpleasantness. insuccation The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. insudate Fluid collection within an arterial wall. insuetude The state or quality of being unaccustomed; lack of habit. insufflate To breathe or blow into or on. insulitis inflammation of the islands of Langerhans insulous Abounding in islands. insulse insipid, dull, stupid or tasteless insulsity lack of taste, insipidity insultation The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. insume To take in; to absorb. insusurration The act of whispering into something. intaminated uncontaminated intemerate Pure, undefiled, chaste. intemperant intemperate intempestive untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment intempestivity Unseasonability; untimeliness. inter- A position which is in between two (or more) of the kind indicated by the root. inter alia Among other things. inter alios Among other people. interamnian Situated between rivers. interbellic Of or pertaining to an interbellum (period of time between two wars), especially the period between the two World Wars (1919–1939); interwar. interbellum The time period between wars. intercalate To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena. intercident Coming or falling between; happening accidentally. intercipient Intercepting; stopping. interclude To cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, to interrupt. intercolumn A space between columns. intercur To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime. interdictum A prohibition: a legal order issued by a praetor (or, in the provinces, a proconsul) at the request of a claimant and addressed to another person, imposing a requirement either to do something or to abstain from doing something. interfection The act of murder or killing. interfluent flowing into one another. interfulgent Shining between, through, or among. Interglossa A constructed language devised by Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975). intergrade To pass or change from one state to another by steps or stages. interjacent Situated between; lying among. interjunction A place where two or more things join or cross. interlucation The thinning of a forest to let in light. interlucent shining between interluency A flowing between; intervening water. interlunium interlunation intermediae The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices. interminate Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable. intermination A menace or threat. intermundium A space between worlds. intermural Between walls; enclosed by walls.