aegritudo

Latin

Etymology

Derived from aeger (“sick, ill”) +‎ -tūdō (“-ness”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ae̯.ɡriˈtuː.doː/, [ae̯.ɡrɪˈtuː.doː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɛ.ɡriˈtu.do/, [ɛ.ɡriˈtuː.do]

Noun

aegritūdō f (genitive aegritūdinis); third declension

  1. illness, sickness
  2. grief, sorrow

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aegritūdō aegritūdinēs
Genitive aegritūdinis aegritūdinum
Dative aegritūdinī aegritūdinibus
Accusative aegritūdinem aegritūdinēs
Ablative aegritūdine aegritūdinibus
Vocative aegritūdō aegritūdinēs

References
  • aegritudo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aegritudo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aegritudo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • aegritudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: in aegritudine, sollicitudine esse
    • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: aegritudine, sollicitudine affici
    • anxiety gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it: aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit (Tusc. 3. 13. 27)
    • to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
    • to be bowed down, prostrated by grief: aegritudine afflictum, debilitatum esse, iacēre
    • to comfort another in his trouble: aegritudinem alicuius elevare
    • to comfort another in his trouble: aliquem aegritudine levare
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