fatigue

See also: fatigué

English

Etymology

From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fatigare (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈtiːɡ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

fatigue (countable and uncountable, plural fatigues)

1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
   • 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian^[1]:

     Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.

2. (often in the plural) A menial task(s), especially in the military.
3. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material.
   • 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399

     Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

Synonyms

• Wikisaurus:fatigue

Derived terms

• fatigues (military work clothing)

Translations

weariness

• Arabic: إِرْهَاق m (ʾirhāq), تَعَب m (taʿab)
• Armenian: ուժասպառություն (hy) (užaspaṙutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: умора (bg) f (umora), изтощение (bg) n (iztoštenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疲勞 (zh), 疲劳 (zh) (píláo), 倦怠 (zh) (juàndài), 乏力 (fálì)

• Czech: únava (cs) f
• Dalmatian: fataica f
• Danish: udmatning c
• Esperanto: laceco
• Estonian: väsimus
• Finnish: väsymys (fi), uupumus
• French: fatigue (fr) f, épuisement (fr) m
• Galician: fatiga f
• German: Müdigkeit (de) f, Ermüdung f, Schlappheit f, Überdruss (de) m, Erschöpfung (de) f
• Greek: κόπος (el) m (kópos), κούραση (el) f (koúrasi), καταπόνηση (el) f (katapónisi)
• Hindi: थकान (hi) f (thakān)
• Irish: tuirse (ga) f
• Istriot: fadeîga f

• Italian: stanchezza (it) f, fatica (it), stanchezza (it), affaticamento (it)
• Japanese: 疲労 (ja) (ひろう, hirō), 疲れ (つかれ, tsukare)
• Korean: 피곤 (ko) (pigon), 피로 (ko) (piro)
• Latvian: nogurums m
• Maori: kurutai, mākinokino
• Miyako: ブガリ (bugari)
• Polish: zmęczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fadiga (pt) f
• Romanian: extenuare (ro) f, oboseală (ro) f
• Russian: уста́лость (ru) f (ustálostʹ), утомле́ние (ru) n (utomlénije)
• Slovene: utrujenost f
• Spanish: fatiga (es) f
• Swedish: utmattning (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagod
• Turkish: bitkinlik (tr)
• Venetian: fadiga f

menial task, especially in military

• French: corvée (fr) f
• Greek: αγγαρεία (el) f (angareía)
• Italian: corvé m

• Romanian: corvadă (ro) f
• Russian: наря́д (ru) m (narjád)

material failure due to cyclic loading

• Bulgarian: умора (bg) f (umora)
• Estonian: väsimus
• Finnish: väsymisvaurio
• German: Ermüdung f
• Greek: φθορά (el) f (fthorá)

• Italian: usura (it), fatica (it), logorio (it)
• Polish: zmęczenie (pl) n
• Russian: уста́лость (ru) f (ustálostʹ)
• Tagalog: pagal

Verb

fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)

1. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
2. (transitive, cooking) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it
   • 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1

     The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.

3. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
4. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.

Related terms

• fatigable
• indefatigable

Translations

to tire or make weary

• Bulgarian: уморявам (bg) (umorjavam), изтощавам (bg) (iztoštavam)
• Finnish: väsyttää (fi), uuvuttaa
• German: ermüden (de)
• Greek: καταπονώ (el) (kataponó), κουράζω (el) (kourázo)

• Portuguese: fatigar (pt)
• Romanian: extenua (ro)
• Russian: утомля́ть (ru) (utomljátʹ), изнуря́ть (ru) (iznurjátʹ)
• Tagalog: mapagod

to lose strength or energy

• Arabic: تَعِبَ (taʿiba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疲勞 (zh), 疲勞 (zh) (píláo)

• Finnish: väsyä (fi), uupua (fi)
• Greek: εξαντλούμαι (el) (exantloúmai), κουράζομαι (el) (kourázomai)

• Japanese: 疲れる (ja) (つかれる, tsukareru)
• Portuguese: fatigar (pt)
• Russian: (perfective) уста́ть (ru) (ustátʹ), (imperfective) устава́ть (ru) (ustavátʹ)
• Tagalog: mapagod

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} fatiguer
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} fatigegar

• Serbo-Croatian: slabost (1), nesvjestica (2)

Further reading

• fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fatigue in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Pronunciation

• (file)

• IPA^(key): /fa.tiɡ/

Noun

fatigue f (plural fatigues)

1. fatigue, weariness

Related terms

• fatigué

Further reading

• “fatigue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Portuguese

Verb

fatigue

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
3. third-person singular imperative of fatigar

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Spanish

Verb

fatigue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fatigar.