miserabilis

miserabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin miser
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -or
Latin miserārī, miseror
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin miserābilis

    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 miserābilīs
    miserābilēs     		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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