decrepitus
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + crepitus, perfect passive participle of crepō (“to rattle, to creak”), apparently meaning noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about like shadows.
Adjective
dēcrepitus (feminine dēcrepita, neuter dēcrepitum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of old men or old animals, very old
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dēcrepitus | dēcrepita | dēcrepitum | dēcrepitī | dēcrepitae | dēcrepita | |
| Genitive | dēcrepitī | dēcrepitae | dēcrepitī | dēcrepitōrum | dēcrepitārum | dēcrepitōrum | |
| Dative | dēcrepitō | dēcrepitō | dēcrepitīs | ||||
| Accusative | dēcrepitum | dēcrepitam | dēcrepitum | dēcrepitōs | dēcrepitās | dēcrepita | |
| Ablative | dēcrepitō | dēcrepitā | dēcrepitō | dēcrepitīs | |||
| Vocative | dēcrepite | dēcrepita | dēcrepitum | dēcrepitī | dēcrepitae | dēcrepita | |
Descendants
References
- “decrepitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decrepitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decrepitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “decrepit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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