debilis

• From dē- +‎ habilis. See the same contraction in dēbeō.
• Others suggest from dē + Proto-Indo-European *bel- (“power, strength”). Compare Sanskrit बल (bala), Russian большой (bolʹšoj), Ancient Greek βελτίων (beltíōn, “better < stronger”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.bi.lis/

dēbilis (neuter dēbile); third declension

1. weak, frail, feeble
   • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, Book II, Chapter IV

     Ita est utraque res sine altera debilis.

     Thus each is feeble without the other.

2. lame, disabled, crippled, infirm

Third declension.

• (weak): potēns

• dēbilitās

• Corsican: debuli
• Dalmatian: débol
• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: debil
• Istriot: dibalo, dibulo
• Italian: debole
• Old French:
  • Middle French: débile
    • French: débile
      • → Russian: дебил (debil)
        • → Armenian: դեբիլ (debil)
    • → English: debile
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: débil
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: dèbil
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: débil
  • Portuguese: débil
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: debul
  • Romansch: debel
• Sardinian: débbile, débbili, díbbile
• Sicilian: dèbbuli, dèbuli, dèbbili, dèbili
• Venetian: debol, debole, debolo, debełe
• → Albanian: debil
• → Czech: debil
• → Danish: debil
• → Georgian: დებილი (debili)
• → German: debil
• → Italian: debile
• → Macedonian: дебил (debil)
• → Polish: debil
• → Spanish: débil
  • Chavacano: debil
• → Swedish: debil

• īnfirmus

• debilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• debilis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• debilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• debilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette