valetudinario

Learned borrowing from Latin valētūdinārius, from valētūdō (“state of health, health, ill health”), from valeō (“to be strong or well”).

• IPA^(key): /balɛtuð̞iˈnäːɾiʊ/

valetudinario (feminine valetudinaria, masculine plural valetudinarios, feminine plural valetudinarias)

1. Sickly, infirm, of ailing health.

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “valetudinario”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Latin valētūdinārius.

• IPA^(key): /va.le.tu.diˈna.rjo/
• Rhymes: -arjo
• Hyphenation: va‧le‧tu‧di‧nà‧rio

valetudinario (feminine valetudinaria, masculine plural valetudinari, feminine plural valetudinarie)

1. valetudinarian

valetudinario m (plural valetudinari)

1. valetudinarian

• valetudinario in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

valētūdināriō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of valētūdinārius

Borrowed from Latin valētūdinārius.

• IPA^(key): /baletudiˈnaɾjo/ [ba.le.t̪u.ð̞iˈna.ɾjo]
• Rhymes: -aɾjo
• Syllabification: va‧le‧tu‧di‧na‧rio

valetudinario (feminine valetudinaria, masculine plural valetudinarios, feminine plural valetudinarias)

1. valetudinarian

• “valetudinario”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024