enervatio

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.nɛrˈwaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.nerˈvat.t͡si.o] === Noun === ēnervātiō f (genitive ēnervātiōnis); third declension a state of weakness, enervation 5th century, St Augustine, The City of God, v.12 Has artes illi tanti peritius exercebant, quanto minus se voluptatibus dabant et enervationi animi et corporis. The more skillfully they practiced these arts, the less they gave themselves to pleasures and enervation of mind and body. weakening, impairment detriment ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “enervatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “enervatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.