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Latin
Etymology
From īnfirmus (“weak, feeble”) + -tās, from in- (“not”) + firmus (“strong, firm”) from Proto-Italic *fermos from root Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Pronunciation
Noun
īnfirmitās f (genitive īnfirmitātis); third declension
- weakness, feebleness, infirmity
- Synonyms: dēbilitās, impotentia, valētūdō
- Antonyms: dūritia, fortitūdō, potentia, potestās, salūbritās, salūs, salūtāre
- sickness
- Synonyms: aegritūdō, morbus, malum, pestis, incommodum, valētūdō, labor
- Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “infirmitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infirmitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infirmitas 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)
- infirmitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 814.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- weakmindedness: ingenii infirmitas or imbecillitas