Latin

Noun

īnfirmitās f ‎(genitive īnfirmitātis); third declension

1. weakness, feebleness,infirmity

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• īnfirmus

Descendants

• English: infirmity
• Italian: infermità
• Old French: enferté
• Old Portuguese: enfermedade
• Portuguese: enfermidade
• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “infirmitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • weakmindedness: ingenii infirmitas or imbecillitas