afflictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of afflīgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /afˈfliːk.tus/, [äfˈflʲiːkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /afˈflik.tus/, [äfˈflikt̪us]

Participle

afflīctus (feminine afflīcta, neuter afflīctum); first/second-declension participle

1. afflicted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	afflīctus	afflīcta	afflīctum		afflīctī	afflīctae	afflīcta
genitive	afflīctī	afflīctae	afflīctī		afflīctōrum	afflīctārum	afflīctōrum
dative	afflīctō	afflīctae	afflīctō		afflīctīs
accusative	afflīctum	afflīctam	afflīctum		afflīctōs	afflīctās	afflīcta
ablative	afflīctō	afflīctā	afflīctō		afflīctīs
vocative	afflīcte	afflīcta	afflīctum		afflīctī	afflīctae	afflīcta

Descendants

• Portuguese: aflito

References

• “afflictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "afflictus", 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)
• afflictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a critical position; a hopeless state of affairs: res dubiae, perditae, afflictae
    
  • misfortune, adversity: res adversae, afflictae, perditae
    
  • to be bowed down, prostrated by grief: aegritudine afflictum, debilitatum esse, iacēre
    
  • to inspire the spiritless and prostrate with new vigour: excitare animum iacentem et afflictum (opp. frangere animum)