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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
ēnervātiō f (genitive ēnervātiōnis); third declension
- a state of weakness, enervation
- 5th century, St Augustine, The City of God, v.12
- Has artes illi tanti peritius exercebant, quanto minus se voluptatibus dabant et enervationi animi et corporis.
- The more skillfully they practiced these arts, the less they gave themselves to pleasures and enervation of mind and body.
- weakening, impairment
- detriment
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “enervatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- enervatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.