What is the Latin word for weary?

The usual Latin words for “weary” are fessus, fatīgō, lassus; also dēfetīscor, dēfatīgō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“weary” in Latin

fessustired, weary; weak, enfeebled; sick, diseased fatīgōto fatigue, tire or weary; to vex or torment lassusweary; faint; tired; exhausted; used up dēfetīscorto become tired, grow weary, be exhausted dēfatīgōto tire out or exhaust; to lose heart or be discouraged

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

weary adj.

fessus (of want of strength arising from exhaustion): fatigatus (worn out): lassus (tired, denoting want of strength which unfits for action). (The words are found in this connection and order.) fessus lassusque. Thoroughly weary, defessus: defatigatus; lassitudine confectus: weary with labor, affectus fatigatione laboris: weary with running, cursu et lassitudine exanimatus: I am quite weary, omnia membra lassitudo mini tenet (comedy): to make anybody weary, aliquem fatigare or (entirely) defatigare; aliquem lassum facere or reddere (of persons or things); aliquem lassare (of things): to grow or become weary, fatigari; lassari; (thoroughly) defatigari; lassitudine confici: (figuratively) weary of asking and waiting for an answer, interrogando et exspectando responsum fessus: weary of war, bello fessus (but ☞ fessus here really denotes a being weary, whilst the English “weary” in these expressions implies only disgust; so that “weary” cannot always be rendered by fessus): I am weary of a thing (i. e., disgusted with it), me tenet alicujus rei satietas; me taedet alicujus rei: I am weary (of waiting, etc), rumpo or abrumpo patientiam (☞ not patientia mihi rumpitur; Vid: Suet., Tib., 25: Tac., Ann., 12, 50, 3).

weary v.

fatigare: defatigare (PROP. and figuratively): defatigare (to weary thoroughly, even to exhaustion). To be wearied, se fatigare; by anything, aliqua re; se frangere; se frangere laboribus (by exertion).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for weary?: The usual Latin words for “weary” are fessus, fatīgō, lassus; also dēfetīscor, dēfatīgō. 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.