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infirma

infirma is a Latin form of infirmus, meaning “weak, frail, infirm; ill”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of infirmo, “weaken; refute, annul”.

Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.17.2: De re frumentaria Boios atque Aeduos adhortari non destitit; quorum alteri, quod nullo studio agebant, non multum adiuvabant, alteri non magnis facultatibus, quod civitas erat exigua et infirma, celeriter quod habuerunt consumpserunt.

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 5.M2.6: Infirma perrumpere luce.

All forms of infirmus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.