penitus

From penes, related to penetrō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ni.tus/, [ˈpɛnɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ni.tus/, [ˈpɛːnit̪us]

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

1. inner, inward

First/second-declension adjective.

Apparently from penes +‎ -tus (adverb-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ni.tus/, [ˈpɛnɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ni.tus/, [ˈpɛːnit̪us]

penitus (not comparable)

1. inwardly, inside

   Synonyms: intrō, intrā

   Antonyms: forās, forīs, extrīnsecus

2. (from) within
3. thoroughly, (not) at all

   Synonyms: omnīnō, prorsus, funditus

4. 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.

From pēnis (“tail”) +‎ -ītus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peːˈniː.tus/, [peːˈniːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈni.tus/, [peˈniːt̪us]

pēnītus (feminine pēnīta, neuter pēnītum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare) having a tail

   Synonym: caudātus

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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