aegritudo

Latin

Etymology

Derived from aeger (“sick, ill”) +‎ -tūdō (“-ness”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯.ɡriˈtuː.doː/, [äe̯ɡrɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.ɡriˈtu.do/, [eɡriˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

aegritūdō f (genitive aegritūdinis); third declension

1. illness, sickness

   Synonyms: morbus, malum, pestis, valētūdō, labor, incommodum, infirmitas

   Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō

2. grief, sorrow

   Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, dēsīderium

   Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aegritūdō	aegritūdinēs
genitive	aegritūdinis	aegritūdinum
dative	aegritūdinī	aegritūdinibus
accusative	aegritūdinem	aegritūdinēs
ablative	aegritūdine	aegritūdinibus
vocative	aegritūdō	aegritūdinēs

References

• “aegritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aegritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aegritudo 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)
• aegritudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: in aegritudine, sollicitudine esse
    
  • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: aegritudine, sollicitudine affici
    
  • anxiety gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it: aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit (Tusc. 3. 13. 27)
    
  • to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
    
  • to be bowed down, prostrated by grief: aegritudine afflictum, debilitatum esse, iacēre
    
  • to comfort another in his trouble: aegritudinem alicuius elevare
    
  • to comfort another in his trouble: aliquem aegritudine levare