flebilis

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Latin

Alternative forms

*fēbilis (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From fleō (“I weep”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfleː.bi.lis/, [ˈfɫ̪eːbɪlʲɪs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfle.bi.lis/, [ˈflɛːbilis]

Adjective

flēbilis (neuter flēbile); third-declension two-termination adjective

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	flēbilis	flēbile	flēbilēs	flēbilia
genitive	flēbilis		flēbilium
dative	flēbilī		flēbilibus
accusative	flēbilem	flēbile	flēbilēs flēbilīs	flēbilia
ablative	flēbilī		flēbilibus
vocative	flēbilis	flēbile	flēbilēs	flēbilia

Descendants

Catalan: feble
- → Spanish: feble
Italian: fievole, → flebile (learned)
Old French: feble, foible
- → English: feeble, foible
- French: faible
- Norman: faibl'ye
- Walloon: fwebe
Occitan: feble
Romansch: flaivel, fleivel, flevel
→ Asturian: feble
→ Galician: feble
→ Portuguese: flébil
→ Spanish: flébil

References

“flebilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“flebilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
flebilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
flebilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.