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Adjective [Latin]

IPA: [sʊbˈɫɛs.tʊs] [Classical-Latin], [subˈlɛs.tus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Unknown. A verbal adjective from an unknown verb or from an unattested noun + -tus (forming adjectives). Etymology templates: {{unk|la}} Unknown, {{af|la|-tus|id1=adjective|pos1=forming adjectives}} -tus (forming adjectives) Head templates: {{la-adj|sublestus|comp=sublestior|sup=sublestissimus}} sublestus (feminine sublesta, neuter sublestum, comparative sublestior, superlative sublestissimus); first/second-declension adjective, {{tlb|la|Plautine|OL.|very rare}} (Plautine, Old Latin, very rare) Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|sublestus}} Forms: sublesta [feminine], sublestum [neuter], sublestior [comparative], sublestissimus [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], sublestus [masculine, nominative, singular], sublesta [feminine, nominative, singular], sublestum [neuter, nominative, singular], sublestī [masculine, nominative, plural], sublestae [feminine, nominative, plural], sublesta [neuter, nominative, plural], sublestī [genitive, masculine, singular], sublestae [feminine, genitive, singular], sublestī [genitive, neuter, singular], sublestōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], sublestārum [feminine, genitive, plural], sublestōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], sublestō [dative, masculine, singular], sublestae [dative, feminine, singular], sublestō [dative, neuter, singular], sublestīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], sublestum [accusative, masculine, singular], sublestam [accusative, feminine, singular], sublestum [accusative, neuter, singular], sublestōs [accusative, masculine, plural], sublestās [accusative, feminine, plural], sublesta [accusative, neuter, plural], sublestō [ablative, masculine, singular], sublestā [ablative, feminine, singular], sublestō [ablative, neuter, singular], sublestīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], subleste [masculine, singular, vocative], sublesta [feminine, singular, vocative], sublestum [neuter, singular, vocative], sublestī [masculine, plural, vocative], sublestae [feminine, plural, vocative], sublesta [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. weak, feeble or making weak; (by extension) shaky, empty, light, worthless Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2 Synonyms: īnfirmus, dēbilis, ;, tenuis, levis, frīvolus

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Multi more isto atque exemplo vivont, quos cum censeas\nesse amicos, reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,",
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          "text": "Sublesta antiqui dicebant infirma et tenuia. Plautus in Persa: \"paupertatem[…]fides sublestior.\" id est, infirmior. Idem in Nervolaria vinum ait \"sublestissimum\", quia infirmos faciat vel corpore vel animo.",
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          "text": "Tua istaec potestas est, pater. Verum tamen,\nquamquam res nostrae sunt, pater, pauperculae,\nmodice et modeste meliust vitam vivere;\nnam ad paupertatem si admigrant infamiae,",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.6.13",
          "roman": "lingua factiosi, inertes opera, sublesta fide.",
          "text": "Multi more isto atque exemplo vivont, quos cum censeas\nesse amicos, reperiuntur falsi falsimoniis,",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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              94
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          "ref": "2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, De Verborum Significatione quae supersunt cum Pauli Epitome, published 1839, page 294; epitomized by Paul the Deacon, 8th c.:",
          "text": "Sublesta antiqui dicebant infirma et tenuia. Plautus in Persa: \"paupertatem[…]fides sublestior.\" id est, infirmior. Idem in Nervolaria vinum ait \"sublestissimum\", quia infirmos faciat vel corpore vel animo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 259",
          "roman": "paupertas gravior fit, fides sublestior.",
          "text": "SVBLESTVM est leve, frivolum. Plautus:\nnam ubi ad paupertatem accessit iam infamia,",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "weak, feeble or making weak; (by extension) shaky, empty, light, worthless"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "weak",
          "weak"
        ],
        [
          "feeble",
          "feeble"
        ],
        [
          "shaky",
          "shaky"
        ],
        [
          "empty",
          "empty"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "īnfirmus"
        },
        {
          "word": "dēbilis"
        },
        {
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "word": "tenuis"
        },
        {
          "word": "levis"
        },
        {
          "word": "frīvolus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[sʊbˈɫɛs.tʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[subˈlɛs.tus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sublestus"
}

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