enervatio

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.nerˈu̯aː.ti.oː/, [eːnɛrˈu̯äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.nerˈvat.t͡si.o/, [enerˈvät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ēnervātiō f (genitive ēnervātiōnis); third declension

1. a state of weakness, enervation
   • 5th century, St Augustine, The City of God, v.12

     Has artes illi tanti peritius exercebant, quanto minus se voluptatibus dabant et enervationi animi et corporis.

     The more skillfully they practiced these arts, the less they gave themselves to pleasures and enervation of mind and body.

2. weakening, impairment
3. detriment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēnervātiō	ēnervātiōnēs
Genitive	ēnervātiōnis	ēnervātiōnum
Dative	ēnervātiōnī	ēnervātiōnibus
Accusative	ēnervātiōnem	ēnervātiōnēs
Ablative	ēnervātiōne	ēnervātiōnibus
Vocative	ēnervātiō	ēnervātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: enervation
• French: énervation

References

• “enervatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• enervatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.