LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective

aegrōtus

aegrōtus (feminine aegrōta, neuter aegrōtum)
Classical[ae̯ˈɡroː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[eˈɡrɔː.tus]

Meaning

  1. adjectivesick, ill, diseased, suffering:
    Salūs/voluntās aegrōtī, suprēma lēx.The health/will of the sick should be the supreme law.
    L. quidem Caesar, cum ad eum aegrotum Nepolim venissem, quamquam erat oppressus totius corporis doloribus, tamen ante, quam me plane salutavit, "o mi Cicero," inquit, "gratulor tibi, cum tantum vales apud Dolabellam, quantum si ego apud sororis filium valerem, iam salvi esse possemus;[…]62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares IX.14.3
  2. adjectivesick, ill, diseased, suffering:
    Quid tu igitur rogitas, tene obiurigem? nisi tu me mihimet censes dicturum male. Nam si in te aegrotant artes antiquae tuae, sin immutare vis ingenium moribus [aut si demutant mores ingenium tuom neque eos antiquos servas, ast captas novos] omnibus amicis morbum tu incuties gravem,c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus I.II.70–76

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Æger · Ægrotus · Morbidus · Morbus · Valetudo · Invaletudo

1. Æger is the generic term for every sort of illness and uneasiness, whether mental or physical; ægrotus and morbidus indicate bodily illness: ægrotus is applied particularly to men; morbidus, to brutes: the æger feels himself ill; the ægrotus and morbidus actually are so. 2. Morbus and valetudo denote an actual illness; morbus, objectively, that which attacks men; valetudo, subjectively, the state of the sick, though this distinction was introduced by writers of the silver age; invaletudo means only an indisposition. (iv. 172.)

Declension

singular
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativeaegrōtusaegrōtaaegrōtum
genitiveaegrōtīaegrōtaeaegrōtī
dativeaegrōtōaegrōtaeaegrōtō
accusativeaegrōtumaegrōtamaegrōtum
ablativeaegrōtōaegrōtāaegrōtō
vocativeaegrōteaegrōtaaegrōtum
plural
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativeaegrōtīaegrōtaeaegrōta
genitiveaegrōtōrumaegrōtārumaegrōtōrum
dativeaegrōtīsaegrōtīsaegrōtīs
accusativeaegrōtōsaegrōtāsaegrōta
ablativeaegrōtīsaegrōtīsaegrōtīs
vocativeaegrōtīaegrōtaeaegrōta

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

aegrotum curare
to treat as a patient (used of a doctor).
aegrotum sanare (not curare)
to cure a patient.

aegrōtus, a, um, adj. aeger,
I. ill, sick, diseased (in Cic. rare).
I. Prop., of the body: facile omnes, cum valemus, recta consilia aegrotis damus, Ter. And. 2, 1, 9: aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur, Cic. Att. 9, 10; id. Fam. 9, 14: cum te aegrotum non videam, Vulg. 2 Esdr. 2, 2; ib. Ezech. 34, 4: corpus, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 48: leo, id. ib. 1, 1, 73 al.—
II. Trop., of the mind: omnibus amicis morbum inicies gravem, ita ut te videre audireque aegroti sient, sick of seeing and hearing you, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 39 (for the constr. of the inf. here, v. Roby, II. § 1360 sq.): animus, Att. ap. Non. 469, 23; Ter. And. 1, 2, 22; 3, 3, 27; Cic. Tusc. 3, 4.—So of the state: hoc remedium est aegrotae et prope desperatae rei publicae, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70.

Origins

Probably equivalent to aegrum n (“pain, distress”, noun) + -tus (“-ed”, adjective-forming suffix). However, the precise development is uncertain. The ending -ōtus, with -tus preceded by -ō-, is unique and unproductive (the usual formation would be *aegrātus, with -ātus). This suggests that Latin aegrōtus is an old formation. According to one hypothesis, some Latin adjectives in -tus (Proto-Italic *-tos) were originally built on the singular form of the Indo-European instrumental case (lost in historical Latin). Compare adjectives in -ītus and -ūtus, such as cornūtus; Nussbaum (1996 & 1998) has suggested that some words ending in these suffixes were originally deinstrumentals. See also -ētum and here. The noun aegrum (Proto-Italic *aigrom) could either be a nominalization of the neuter singular of the adjective aeger (“sick, ill, diseased”), or an older noun formation from the same root.

In English words that came into English from aegrōtus

  • aegrotataegrotat

Quick answers

What does aegrōtus mean in Latin?
aegrōtus, a adjective, means “sick, ill, diseased, suffering:; sick, ill, diseased, suffering:”.
How do you pronounce aegrōtus?
In classical Latin, [ae̯ˈɡroː.tʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [eˈɡrɔː.tus].