imbecillitas

Latin

Etymology

From imbēcillus +‎ -tās.

Noun

imbēcillitās f (genitive imbēcillitātis); third declension

  1. weakness, feebleness
  2. powerlessness, helplessness
  3. illness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative imbēcillitās imbēcillitātēs
genitive imbēcillitātis imbēcillitātum
dative imbēcillitātī imbēcillitātibus
accusative imbēcillitātem imbēcillitātēs
ablative imbēcillitāte imbēcillitātibus
vocative imbēcillitās imbēcillitātēs

Descendants

  • English: imbecility
  • French: imbécillité
  • Italian: imbecillità
  • Portuguese: imbecilidade
  • Romanian: imbecilitate
  • Spanish: imbecilidad

References

  • “imbecillitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “imbecillitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “imbecillitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • weakmindedness: ingenii infirmitas or imbecillitas
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