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

1. Of old men or old animals, very old

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dēcrepitus	dēcrepita	dēcrepitum		dēcrepitī	dēcrepitae	dēcrepita
genitive	dēcrepitī	dēcrepitae	dēcrepitī		dēcrepitōrum	dēcrepitārum	dēcrepitōrum
dative	dēcrepitō	dēcrepitae	dēcrepitō		dēcrepitīs
accusative	dēcrepitum	dēcrepitam	dēcrepitum		dēcrepitōs	dēcrepitās	dēcrepita
ablative	dēcrepitō	dēcrepitā	dēcrepitō		dēcrepitīs
vocative	dēcrepite	dēcrepita	dēcrepitum		dēcrepitī	dēcrepitae	dēcrepita

Descendants

• Catalan: decrèpit
• Middle French: décrépit
  • → Middle English: decrepyt
    • English: decrepit, decrepid
  • French: décrépit
• Galician: decrépito
• Italian: decrepito
• Portuguese: decrépito
• Spanish: decrépito

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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “decrepit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.