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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ληθᾱργῐ́ᾱ (lēthārgíā, “drowsiness”), from λήθᾱργος (lḗthārgos, “forgetful”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
lēthārgia f (genitive lēthārgiae); first declension (Late Latin)
- Lethargy, drowsiness.
- Synonym: somnolentia
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “lethargia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lethargia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.