infirmiorem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →infirmus, infirma -um, infirmior -or -us, infirmissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fragile/frail/feeble; unwell/sick/infirm;; weak (military); mild/irresolute; powerless/ineffectual; unsound/untrustworthy;
acc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
- L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...fuisse regnum Posidonius iudicat. Hi continebant manus et infirmiorem a validioribus tuebantur, suadebant dissuadebantque et utilia atque inutilia..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...comparativis pro absolutis, ut cum se quis infirmiorem esse dicet. duo inter se comparativa committimus: "si te, Catilina..." - T
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...alterum ex iis; et si diuisissent copias, utrumque infirmiorem factum aut sibi aut Campanis bene gerendae rei fortunam..."