infirmitas

== 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩːˈfɪr.mɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈfir.mi.tas] === 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. ==== Related terms ==== īnfirmis īnfirmus ==== Descendants ==== English: infirmity Galician: enfermidade Italian: infermità Old French: enferté Old Galician-Portuguese: enfermedade Portuguese: enfermidade Sicilian: infirmità Spanish: enfermedad === 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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.