enfermo

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See also: enfermó

Asturian

Adjective

enfermo

  1. neuter of enfermu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese enfermo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin īnfirmus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

enfermo (feminine enferma, masculine plural enfermos, feminine plural enfermas)

  1. sick, ill, diseased
    Synonyms: doente, mal
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 157:
      Cauallo que ha a door no corpo dentro contynoadamente ten as orellas fryas et os ollos couos he mal enfermo
      the horse who has pain inside his body continuously, has the ears cold and the eyes hollow, is badly ill
    • 1895, A. López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 170:
      a situación tristísima e máis que lamentábel da súa nai, enferma, sin recursos e, para maor desgracia, de xenio tan atufado, enrenico e mal cabido, que naide se ladaba con ela
      the very sad and lamentable position of her mother, sick, resourceless and, adding insult to injury, having such a haughty, rude and misfit temper, that none got along with her

Noun

enfermo m (plural enfermos, feminine enferma, feminine plural enfermas)

  1. sick person
    Synonym: doente
  2. (in the plural) sick
    • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 167:
      Ali da soude aos enfermos et alumea os çegos
      There He gives health to the sick and lights the blind

Verb

enfermo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of enfermar

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese enfermo, from Latin īnfirmus (sick, feeble), from in- + firmus (firm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (holding).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈfeʁ.mu/ , (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈfeʁ.mu/
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈfeɾ.mu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈfeɾ.mu/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈfeʁ.mu/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈfeʁ.mu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈfeɻ.mo/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈfeɻ.mo/

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Adjective

enfermo (feminine enferma, masculine plural enfermos, feminine plural enfermas)

  1. (of a person) sick, ill
    Synonyms: doente, adoecido, mal

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin īnfirmus (weak, feeble), from īn- + firmus (strong).

Adjective

enfermo (feminine enferma, masculine plural enfermos, feminine plural enfermas)

  1. sick, ill
    Synonym: malato
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

enfermo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of enfermar

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