flebilis

Latin

Alternative forms

• *fēbilis (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin fleō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin flēbilis

From fleō (“to weep”) + -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫeː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflɛː.bi.lis]

Adjective

flēbilis (neuter flēbile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. lamentable
2. doleful, tearful

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	flēbilis	flēbile		flēbilēs	flēbilia
genitive	flēbilis			flēbilium
dative	flēbilī			flēbilibus
accusative	flēbilem	flēbile		flēbilīs flēbilēs	flēbilia
ablative	flēbilī			flēbilibus
vocative	flēbilis	flēbile		flēbilēs	flēbilia

Descendants

• Northern Gallo-Romance: (via Vulgar *fēbelis)
  • Franco-Provençal: fêblo
  • Old French: feble, foible (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: feble
    • → Spanish: feble
  • Old Occitan: feble
    • Occitan: feble
    • →? Asturian: feble (or from other Gallo-Romance)
    • →? Galician: feble (or from other Gallo-Romance)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansh: flaivel, fleivel, flevel
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fievole
• Borrowings:
  • → Italian: flebile
  • → Portuguese: flébil
  • → Spanish: flébil

References

• “flebilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flebilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "flebilis", 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)
• “flebilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.