miserabilis

Latin

Etymology

From miserārī, miseror +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

miserābilis (neuter miserābile, comparative miserābilior); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. pitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad, pitiful, pathetic

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative miserābilis miserābile miserābilēs miserābilia
genitive miserābilis miserābilium
dative miserābilī miserābilibus
accusative miserābilem miserābile miserābilēs
miserābilīs 		miserābilia
ablative miserābilī miserābilibus
vocative miserābilis miserābile miserābilēs miserābilia

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: miserable
  • French: misérable
  • Italian: miserabile, miserevole
  • Portuguese: miserável
  • Romanian: mizerabil
  • Sicilian: misiràbbili
  • Spanish: miserable

References

  • “miserabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “miserabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • miserabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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