aegrotus

== Latin == === Etymology === Probably equivalent to aegrum n (“pain, distress”, noun) +‎ -tus (“-ed”, adjective-forming suffix). However, the precise development is uncertain. The ending -ōtus, with -tus preceded by -ō-, is unique and unproductive (the usual formation would be *aegrātus, with -ātus). This suggests that Latin aegrōtus is an old formation. According to one hypothesis, some Latin adjectives in -tus (Proto-Italic *-tos) were originally built on the singular form of the Indo-European instrumental case (lost in historical Latin). Compare adjectives in -ītus and -ūtus, such as cornūtus; Nussbaum (1996 & 1998) has suggested that some words ending in these suffixes were originally deinstrumentals. See also -ētum and here. The noun aegrum (Proto-Italic *aigrom) could either be a nominalization of the neuter singular of the adjective aeger (“sick, ill, diseased”), or an older noun formation from the same root. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ae̯ˈɡroː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈɡrɔː.tus] === Adjective === aegrōtus (feminine aegrōta, neuter aegrōtum); first/second-declension adjective sick, ill, diseased, suffering: (of the body) (of the mind) (Can we add an example for this sense?) ==== Usage notes ==== aegrōtus is usually restricted to physical illness. Its use is mostly figurative when said of the mind, sometimes in a direct comparison with the physical; aeger is otherwise used. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== aegrōtō === References === === Further reading === “aegrotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aegrotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “aegrotus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co. Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary