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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From valeō + -tūdō.
Pronunciation
Noun
valētūdō f (genitive valētūdinis); third declension
- state of health (usually bad unless deliberately expressed otherwise)
- Synonym: salūs
Valetudine prosperrima usus est.- He enjoyed excellent health.
- illness
- Synonyms: aegritūdō, morbus, malum, pestis, labor, incommodum, infirmitas
- ability, power
- Synonyms: fortitūdō, efficācia, capācitās, ops
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “valetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “valetudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- valetudo 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)
- valetudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
- to take care of one's health: valetudini consulere, operam dare
- to be ill, weakly: infirma, aegra valetudine esse or uti
- to excuse oneself on the score of health: valetudinem (morbum) excusare (Liv. 6. 22. 7)
- to excuse oneself on the score of health: valetudinis excusatione uti
- to plead ill-health as an excuse for absence: excusare morbum, valetudinem