miserabilis

Latin

Etymology

From miserārī, miseror +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mi.seˈraː.bi.lis/, [mɪs̠ɛˈräːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.seˈra.bi.lis/, [mis̬eˈräːbilis]

Adjective

miserābilis (neuter miserābile, comparative miserābilior); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. pitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad, pitiful, pathetic

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	miserābilis	miserābile		miserābilēs	miserābilia
genitive	miserābilis			miserābilium
dative	miserābilī			miserābilibus
accusative	miserābilem	miserābile		miserābilēs miserābilīs	miserābilia
ablative	miserābilī			miserābilibus
vocative	miserābilis	miserābile		miserābilēs	miserābilia

Derived terms

• immiserābilis

Descendants

• English: miserable
• French: misérable
• Italian: miserabile, miserevole
• Portuguese: miserável
• Romanian: mizerabil
• Sicilian: misiràbbili
• Spanish: miserable

References

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