Innato, innatas, pen. cor. innatâte Columello. To swsmme in a place.Innatare in fluuium. Pli. To leape into a riuer and Swim.Innatare vndam. Virgil. To swim in the water.Innatare flumini. Plin. To swim in the riuer.Innatans aquis pluma. Pli. Innatat terræ fluuius. Plin. The riuer ouerfloweth the earthVnda dulcis fieto innatat.Ouid.Lactuca innatat stomacho. Hor. Swimmeth in the stomacke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-năto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to swim or float in or upon (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). I.Lit.A. Homines flumini innatant, Plin. 8, 25, 38, 93: aquis pluma innatans, id. 18, 35, 86, 360: lactuca innatat acri Post vinum stomacho ( = supernatat, non subsidet), Hor. S. 2, 4, 59; cf.: dulce (vinum) stomacho innatat, austerum facilius concoquitur, Plin. 23, 1, 22, 38.— (b). With acc.: undam innatat alnus,
swims the stream
, Verg. G. 2, 451.—B.To swim or float into: cum pisciculi parvi in concham hiantem innataverunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123. —2.To flow over, overflow: Nilus fecundus innatat terrae, Plin. 5, 9, 9, 54; so, innatat campis (Tiberis), Plin. Ep. 8, 17, 2: innatat unda freto dulcis,
the fresh water flows into the sea
, Ov. P. 4, 10, 63.—3.To swim or float among, to be intermingled with: inter hos latent arteriae ... his innatant venae, Plin. 11, 37, 89, 219.—II.Trop.A. Innatans illa verborum facilitas, floating on the surface, superficial, Quint. 10, 7, 28; 7, 1, 44.—B. Of the hair, to float or flow: tenui vagus innatat undā Crinis, Val. Fl. 3, 525.