imbecillus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
For *imbeccillus, from in- + bacillus, as if "without support, feeble", but Century Dictionary and De Vaan find it "improbable" and "far-fetched".[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪm.beːˈkɪl.lʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [im.beˈt͡ʃil.lus]
Adjective
imbēcillus (feminine imbēcilla, neuter imbēcillum, comparative imbēcillior); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | imbēcillus | imbēcilla | imbēcillum | imbēcillī | imbēcillae | imbēcilla | |
| genitive | imbēcillī | imbēcillae | imbēcillī | imbēcillōrum | imbēcillārum | imbēcillōrum | |
| dative | imbēcillō | imbēcillae | imbēcillō | imbēcillīs | |||
| accusative | imbēcillum | imbēcillam | imbēcillum | imbēcillōs | imbēcillās | imbēcilla | |
| ablative | imbēcillō | imbēcillā | imbēcillō | imbēcillīs | |||
| vocative | imbēcille | imbēcilla | imbēcillum | imbēcillī | imbēcillae | imbēcilla | |
Descendants
References
- ^ Etymonline
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “imbēcillus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 298–299
Further reading
- “imbecillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “imbecillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- imbecillus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- imbecillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bak-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 93