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) IPA^(key): /inˈfir.mi.taːs/, [ĩːˈfɪrmɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfir.mi.tas/, [iɱˈfirmit̪äs]

Noun

īnfirmitās f (genitive īnfirmitātis); third declension

1. weakness, feebleness, infirmity

   Synonyms: dēbilitās, impotentia, valētūdō

   Antonyms: dūritia, fortitūdō, potentia, potestās, salūbritās, salūs, salūtāre

2. sickness

   Synonyms: aegritūdō, morbus, malum, pestis, incommodum, valētūdō, labor

   Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnfirmitās	īnfirmitātēs
Genitive	īnfirmitātis	īnfirmitātum
Dative	īnfirmitātī	īnfirmitātibus
Accusative	īnfirmitātem	īnfirmitātēs
Ablative	īnfirmitāte	īnfirmitātibus
Vocative	īnfirmitās	īnfirmitātēs

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’s 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.
  • weakmindedness: ingenii infirmitas or imbecillitas