vulnerabilis

Latin

Etymology

From vulnerāre, vulnerō (“I wound”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯ul.neˈraː.bi.lis/, [u̯ʊɫ̪nɛˈräːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vul.neˈra.bi.lis/, [vulneˈräːbilis]

Adjective

vulnerābilis (neuter vulnerābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) injurious, wounding, vulnerable

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	vulnerābilis	vulnerābile		vulnerābilēs	vulnerābilia
Genitive	vulnerābilis			vulnerābilium
Dative	vulnerābilī			vulnerābilibus
Accusative	vulnerābilem	vulnerābile		vulnerābilēs vulnerābilīs	vulnerābilia
Ablative	vulnerābilī			vulnerābilibus
Vocative	vulnerābilis	vulnerābile		vulnerābilēs	vulnerābilia

Related terms

• vulnerārius
• vulnerātiō
• vulnerātor
• vulnerō
• vulnifer
• vulnificō
• vulnificus
• vulnus
• vulnusculum

 

Descendants

• Catalan: vulnerable
• English: vulnerable
• French: vulnérable
• Galician: vulnerable
• German: vulnerabel
• Italian: vulnerabile
• Portuguese: vulnerável
• Romanian: vulnerabil
• Sicilian: vurniràbbili
• Spanish: vulnerable

References

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