letalis

From lētum (“death; ruin”) +‎ -ālis.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /leːˈtaː.lis/, [ɫeːˈtaː.lɪs]

lētālis (neuter lētāle); third declension

1. lethal, deadly, fatal, mortal
   • ca. 1129, Henricus Huntindoniensis, Historia Anglorum , ed. Thomas Arnold, 1879, p. 194:

     Quem cum bello caesum patri renuntiassent, ait: "Recepitne vulnus letale in anteriori vel posteriori corporis parte?" Dixerunt nuntii: "In anteriori."

     And when they had reported his death during the battle to his father, he said: "Did he receive the lethal blow on the front or the back of his body?" The messengers said: "In the front."

   • 2007, Carolus Petreius Bogotensis, Niponum gallinae probantur viru aviarii morbi contactae , Ephemeris, 2007:

     Biologici Nipones affirmant virus H5N1 {...} esse letale.

     Japanese biologists confirm that the H5N1 virus {...} is lethal.

Third declension.

• lētifer
• lētō
• lētum

• English: lethal
• French: létal
• Italian: letale
• Portuguese: letal
• Spanish: letal

• letalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• letalis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• letalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette