The corpus record — Latin

debilitas

debilitas · f

lameness

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 1 · 0.56/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3 · 0.25/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēbĭlĭtas — Lewis & Short

dēbĭlĭtas, ātis, f.debilis,

I lameness, debility, infirmity, weakness (good prose).

I Lit.: linguae, Cic. Pis. 1: membrorum, Liv. 33, 2: pedis, Labeo ap. Gell. 4, 2, 4: pedum, Tac. H. 1, 9: aliqua corporis, * Suet. Calig. 26 fin. et saep.—Absol.: bonum integritas corporis, miserum debilitas, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84; so id. Tusc. 3, 34; id. de Inv. 1, 25, 36; Liv. 2, 36; Cels. 5, 26, 28; Juv. 14, 156; Quint. 5, 12, 19; Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 9 al.— In plur.: a se dolores, morbos, debilitates repellere, Cic. Fin. 4, 8 fin.; Gell. 7, 1, 7; Arnob. 1, 46 sq.—

II Trop.: animi, Cic. Fin. 1, 15: mollis debilitate Galliambus, Mart. 2, 86, 5.

In the wild

debilitatem Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.49
debilitatem Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.8
debilitatis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.31
debilitate Tacitus, Historiae 1.9
debilitate Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.156
debilitatem Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 3.1

6 of 31 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.