aegritudo

Latin

Etymology

Derived from aeger (sick, ill) + -tūdō (-ness).

Pronunciation

Noun

aegritūdō f (genitive aegritūdinis); third declension

  1. illness, sickness
    Synonyms: morbus, malum, pestis, valētūdō, labor, incommodum, infirmitas
    Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
  2. grief, sorrow
    Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, dēsīderium
    Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aegritūdō aegritūdinēs
Genitive aegritūdinis aegritūdinum
Dative aegritūdinī aegritūdinibus
Accusative aegritūdinem aegritūdinēs
Ablative aegritūdine aegritūdinibus
Vocative aegritūdō aegritūdinēs

References

  • aegritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aegritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aegritudo 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)
  • aegritudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: in aegritudine, sollicitudine esse
    • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: aegritudine, sollicitudine affici
    • anxiety gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it: aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit (Tusc. 3. 13. 27)
    • to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
    • to be bowed down, prostrated by grief: aegritudine afflictum, debilitatum esse, iacēre
    • to comfort another in his trouble: aegritudinem alicuius elevare
    • to comfort another in his trouble: aliquem aegritudine levare
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