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Latin
Etymology
Derived from aeger (“sick, ill”) + -tūdō (“-ness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aegritūdō f (genitive aegritūdinis); third declension
- illness, sickness
- Synonyms: morbus, malum, pestis, valētūdō, labor, incommodum, infirmitas
- Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
- grief, sorrow
- Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, dēsīderium
- Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “aegritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aegritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aegritudo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aegritudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be vexed, mortified, anxious: in aegritudine, sollicitudine esse
- to be vexed, mortified, anxious: aegritudine, sollicitudine affici
- anxiety gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it: aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit (Tusc. 3. 13. 27)
- to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
- to be bowed down, prostrated by grief: aegritudine afflictum, debilitatum esse, iacēre
- to comfort another in his trouble: aegritudinem alicuius elevare
- to comfort another in his trouble: aliquem aegritudine levare