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“weakness” in Latin
īnfirmitāsweakness, feebleness, infirmity; sicknessimbēcillitāsweakness, feebleness; powerlessness, helplessness; illnessdēbilitōto cripple or maim; to debilitate, unnerve, disable or weakentenuitāsthinness, fineness, delicateness; poverty; frugalitylevitāslevity, lightness; fickleness, inconstancy, disloyaltyīnfirmusweak, feeble; unhealthy, infirm, indisposed, sick; inconclusivetenuisthin, slender, slim, lank; especially; fine, rare, thin; pure, clear, not coarse; weak, feeble, tenuousfrangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to breerrōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistakevitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, fault
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
weakness
Want of physical strength, infirmitas: imbecillitas: debilitas (absence of strength): virium defectio (failure of strength): tenuitas: levitas (slightness, want of proper consistency). Weakness of the stomach, ventriculi imbecillitas: resolutio stomachi (Cels.); cruditas (Cic.): bodily weakness, imbecillitas: infirmitas corporis, valetudinis: infirma valetudo (Cic.); infirmitas virium (Caes.); imbecillitas virium: vires infirmae, aftectae (Cic.): on account of bodily defects, debilitas corporis (Cic.): weakness of voice, vocis infirmitas (Plin., Ep.); exilitas (Quint.): weakness of sight, infirmitas oculorum (Plin., Ep.); resolutio oculorum (Cels.); acies hebes oculorum (Cic.); oculi hebetiores (Quint.): weakness of the nerves, resolutio nervorum (Cels.): weakness of the pulse, exigui imbecillique venarum pulsus (Cels.): weakness of a kingdom, regni imbecillitas, infirmitas: regni opes attritae, affectae, senescentes: regnum imbecillum (Sall.).
Want of strength of mind, animi imbecillitas (Caes.); animus imbecillus (Cic.), infirmus, tenuis, fractus (Caes.); animi vigor obtusus (Liv.); ingenii imbecillitas.
Want of resolution or courage, infirmitas.
Fault, failing, error: vitium: to be guilty of a weakness, errare: labi: peccare: human weakness, infirmitas, imbecillitas humana.
High-wrought sensibility, excessive tenderness, animus mollis: animi mollities.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for weakness?
- The usual Latin words for “weakness” are īnfirmitās, imbēcillitās, dēbilitō; also tenuitās, levitās, īnfirmus. 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.