flebilis

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

1. lamentable
2. doleful, tearful

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
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.