indiscrētus

Meaning

1. adjectivepost Augustanunseparated, undivided, closely connected
   Agrī cultūram prīmō propter paupertātem maximē indiscrētam habēbant, quod ā pāstōribus quī erant ortī in eōdem agrō et serēbant et pāscēbant; quæ posteā crēvērunt pecūlia dīvīsērunt, ac factum ut dīcerentur aliī agricolæ, aliī pāstōrēs.At first, they held the cultivation of the land in a very disorganized manner because of their poverty, since those who had sprung from the same land both sowed and grazed there; later, as their wealth grew, they divided it, and so it happened that some were called farmers and others shepherds.116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum 3.1.7
2. adjectivefigurativelypost Augustanindistinguishable, not capable of being told apart
   Vōs etiam, geminī, Rutulīs cecidistis in arvīs, ¶ Daucia, Lārīdē Thymberque, simillima prōlēs, ¶ indiscrēta suīs grātusque parentibus error; ¶ at nunc dūra dedit vōbīs discrīmina Pallās. 1951 translation by Rolfe Humphries And then he saw twin brothers, sons of Daucus, ¶ Named Thymber and Larides, whom their kinsmen ¶ Could never tell apart, and their own parents ¶ Made fond mistakes about them.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 10.391–392

Declension

Origins

From in- + discrētus.

In English words that came into English from indiscrētus

• indiscreteindiscrētus