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]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfir.mi.tas/, [iɱˈfirmit̪äs]

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.

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 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- weakmindedness: ingenii infirmitas or imbecillitas