infirmus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →infirmus, infirmi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Souter (Later Latin)
- Age:
- Later
patient, one who is sick/infirm;
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;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...lassitudo et oscitatio et horror membra percurrens - sic infirmus animus multo ante quam opprimatur malis quatitur; praesumit illa..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...mutuo perdit metu. Accumulat ecce liberum funus parens, infirmus auxiliator. Invadunt virum iam morte pasti membraque ad terram..." - G
Horace
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...ipse sufficiebam scribendis epistulis amicorum, nunc occupatissimus et infirmus Horatium nostrum a te cupio abducere. Veniet ergo..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...adfectus, ita si nil efficit tepet; quem melius infirmus actor tacitis iudicum cogitationibus reliquisset. XLV. Nam et vultus..." - G
Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...enim seu tale aliquid suspicatus sive, ut excusabatur, infirmus. Et relationem quidem de eo Caesar ad senatum..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Proinde adhibe solacia mihi, non haec: 'Senex erat, infirmus erat' — haec enim novi -, sed nova aliqua, sed magna..."
