flebilis

Latin

Alternative forms

• *fēbilis (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From fleō (“I weep”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	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

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

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.