infirmos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →infirmus, infirmi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Souter (Later Latin)
- Age:
- Later
patient, one who is sick/infirm;
acc. pl.nom. sg. - 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. pl. (m.)
Examples
- M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...luce uocabat.orbe quoque exhaustus medio languensque recessitspectantis oculos infirmo lumine passus. 545lunaque non gracili surrexit lucida cornuaut orbis..." - T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem. nam vel ut infirmo pueri teneroque vagantur corpore, sic animi sequitur sententia tenvis..." - L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...apud te est, tuum non est; nihil firmum infirmo, nihil fragili aeternum et invictum est. Tam necesse..." - L
Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...causa melior, sorsque deterior trahit, Inclinat animus, semper infirmo fauens. Miseros magis fortuna conciliat suis. Nuntius Regina..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quaedam in his quoque commendatio tacita, si nos infirmos, inparatos, inpares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, qualia sunt pleraque..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...litteris tribuerunt ineptos et ieiunos et tepidos et infirmos, ut quodque uerbum contumeliosissimum occurrit, appellent. Verum illis quidem..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae, cum interea infirmo quatientes corpora motu veridicos Parcae coeperunt edere cantus..." - M
In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...coniuratorum manum simul exituram aut eos, qui restitissent, infirmos sine illo ac debiles fore putabam. [4] Atque..."
