Latin

Alternative forms

• adflīgō

Verb

afflīgō ‎(present infinitive afflīgere, perfect active afflīxī, supine afflīctum); third conjugation

1. I strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate.
2. I afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin.
3. I humble, weaken or vex.
4. I overthrow.

Inflection

Derived terms

• afflīctiō
• afflīctō
• afflīctor
• afflīctus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• affligo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “affligo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be the victim of misfortune: calamitatibus affligi
    
  • to bring a man to ruin; to destroy: aliquem affligere, perdere, pessumdare, in praeceps dare
    
  • their spirits are broken: animus frangitur, affligitur, percellitur, debilitatur