English → Latin
“frailty” in Latin
fragilitāsbrittleness, fragility; weakness, frailnessimbēcillitāsweakness, feebleness; powerlessness, helplessness; illnessīnfirmitāsweakness, feebleness, infirmity; sicknessdēbilitōto cripple or maim; to debilitate, unnerve, disable or weakenvitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, faulterrōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistakebrevitāsshortness; narrowness; briefness, brevity, shortness; conciseness, terseness, brevity
The English word frailty itself goes back to Latin frangō, through fragilitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
frailty
fragilitas (PROP. and figuratively): imbecillitas: infirmitas: debilitas [SYN. in WEAKNESS]: vitium: error (fault, foible): brevitas (shortness of life). No man is exempt from frailties, nemo nascitur sine vitiis (Hor.): humanum est errare: to have many frailties, multis erroribus obnoxium esse: to feel one’s frailty, minimum in se esse arbitrari (opposed to plurimum sibi confidere, i. e., to feel one’s self equal to anything, Cic., Lael., 9, 29): human frailty, infirmitas humana; error humanus (as act caused by it): to have erred (in anything) through human frailty, aliqua culpa teneri erroris humani (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for frailty?
- The usual Latin words for “frailty” are fragilitās, imbēcillitās, īnfirmitās; also dēbilitō, vitium, errō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.