The corpus record — Latin

decrepitus

worn out (with age), decrepit

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Mercator 2 · 2.34/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. decrepitus — de Vaan

decrepitus 'worn out (with age), decrepit' [adj. o/a] (PL+) Pit. *krep-eto- 'strong / quick'. PIE *krep-eto- 'strong'. IE cognates: Mir. crim 'quick', W. cryf9 Bret, krenv 'strong' < PCL *krimo- < *fop-mo- (cf Hamp 1960-61); OCS krept 'strong1 < PBS1. *krePp-, OIc. hrcefa 'to endure' < *krep-. A compound formed after adjectives like de-bilis9 de-mens, de-formis, with de- 'off, away' and a nominal second member. Yet … — [de Vaan, s.v. decrepitus, p. 178]

2. dē-crĕpĭtus — Lewis & Short

dē-crĕpĭtus, a, um, adj.crepo (lit., noiseless; applied to old people, who creep about like shadows),

I very old, decrepit (mostly ante-class.): vetulus, decrepitus senex, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 43; so, senex, id. ib. 20; id. Asin. 5, 2, 13; Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 16: senex, Vulg. 2 Par. 36, 17: leo, Prud. Ham. 561: inter decrepitos me numera et extrema languentes, Sen. Ep. 26: aetas (bestiolae), * Cic. Tusc. 1, 39 fin.

In the wild

decrepita Boethius, De Fide Catholica 1
decrepito Terence, Eunuchus 2.1
decrepitam Suetonius, Otho 2.2
decrepita Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.94
decrepitos Petronius, Satyricon 45
decrepito Apuleius, Apologia 70

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. decrepitus (scan pp. 178-179; entry #417). Root candidates: *krimo-, *krePp-, *krep-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. décrepitus (scan p. 20; entry #22).

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