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debilis

debilis

Latin

Adjective

dēbilis m, f ‎(neuter dēbile); third declension

weak, frail, feeble
- Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, Book II, Chapter IV
  Ita est utraque res sine altera debilis.
  Thus each is feeble without the other.
lame, disabled, crippled, infirm

Inflection

Third declension.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
nominative	dēbilis	dēbile		dēbilēs	dēbilia
genitive	dēbilis			dēbilium
dative	dēbilī			dēbilibus
accusative	dēbilem	dēbile		dēbilēs	dēbilia
ablative	dēbilī			dēbilibus
vocative	dēbilis	dēbile		dēbilēs	dēbilia

See also

īnfirmus

Antonyms

(weak): potēns

Derived terms

dēbilitās

Descendants

Asturian: débil
Catalan: dèbil
Corsican: debuli
Dalmatian: débol
French: débile
Friulian: debul
Galician: débil
Georgian: დებილი ‎(debili)
Istriot: dibalo, dibulo

Italian: debole, debile
Portuguese: débil
Romanian: debil
Romansh: debel
Russian: дебил ‎(debil)
Sardinian: débbile, débbili, díbbile
Sicilian: dèbbuli, dèbuli, dèbbili, dèbili
Spanish: débil
Venetian: debol, debole, debolo, debełe

References

debilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
debilis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
DEBILIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “debilis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.