"decrepitude" meaning in English

See decrepitude in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /dɪˈkɹɛpɪtʃuːd/ [UK], /dəˈkɹɛpɪˌtuːd/ [US] Forms: decrepitudes [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French décrépitude, from Old French, from Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|décrépitude}} Middle French décrépitude, {{der|en|fro|-}} Old French, {{der|en|la|dēcrepitūdō|t=decrepitude}} Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} decrepitude (countable and uncountable, plural decrepitudes)
  1. the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: cobwebbiness, decrepitness, hoariness, oldness Translations (the state of being decrepit): грохналост (grohnalost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), aftakeling [feminine] (Dutch), Abnutzung [feminine] (German), Altersschwäche [feminine] (German), Verfall [masculine] (German), decrepità [feminine] (Italian), decrepitezza [feminine] (Italian), anheiltys [masculine] (Manx), ánasótt [feminine] (Old Norse), decrepitude [feminine] (Portuguese), дря́хлость (drjáxlostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), decrepitud [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-decrepitude-en-noun-1d6Sb8nx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for decrepitude meaning in English (4.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "décrépitude"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French décrépitude",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "dēcrepitūdō",
        "t": "decrepitude"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French décrépitude, from Old French, from Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decrepitudes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "decrepitude (countable and uncountable, plural decrepitudes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets",
          "text": "There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby",
          "text": "This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth",
          "text": "We were encircled by a ghostly decrepitude, roads that led to nowhere, canals holding pools of brilliant, stinking water, a few nat-haunted banyan trees, grotesque with old muscled trunks and bearded roots.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, James C. H. Shen, “A Round of Calls”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107",
          "text": "He recalled that when he accompanied Nixon to Peking in February, 1972, he had been struck by Mao's decrepitude and Chou's failing health.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use"
      ],
      "id": "en-decrepitude-en-noun-1d6Sb8nx",
      "links": [
        [
          "decrepit",
          "decrepit"
        ],
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cobwebbiness"
        },
        {
          "word": "decrepitness"
        },
        {
          "word": "hoariness"
        },
        {
          "word": "oldness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "grohnalost",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "грохналост"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "aftakeling"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Abnutzung"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Altersschwäche"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Verfall"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "decrepità"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "decrepitezza"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anheiltys"
        },
        {
          "code": "non",
          "lang": "Old Norse",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ánasótt"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "decrepitude"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "drjáxlostʹ",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дря́хлость"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "decrepitud"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈkɹɛpɪtʃuːd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈkɹɛpɪˌtuːd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "decrepitude"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "décrépitude"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French décrépitude",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "dēcrepitūdō",
        "t": "decrepitude"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French décrépitude, from Old French, from Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decrepitudes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "decrepitude (countable and uncountable, plural decrepitudes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Middle French",
        "English terms derived from Old French",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets",
          "text": "There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby",
          "text": "This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth",
          "text": "We were encircled by a ghostly decrepitude, roads that led to nowhere, canals holding pools of brilliant, stinking water, a few nat-haunted banyan trees, grotesque with old muscled trunks and bearded roots.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, James C. H. Shen, “A Round of Calls”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107",
          "text": "He recalled that when he accompanied Nixon to Peking in February, 1972, he had been struck by Mao's decrepitude and Chou's failing health.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "decrepit",
          "decrepit"
        ],
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈkɹɛpɪtʃuːd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈkɹɛpɪˌtuːd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cobwebbiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "decrepitness"
    },
    {
      "word": "hoariness"
    },
    {
      "word": "oldness"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "grohnalost",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "грохналост"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aftakeling"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Abnutzung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Altersschwäche"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Verfall"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "decrepità"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "decrepitezza"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anheiltys"
    },
    {
      "code": "non",
      "lang": "Old Norse",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ánasótt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "decrepitude"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "drjáxlostʹ",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дря́хлость"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state of being decrepit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "decrepitud"
    }
  ],
  "word": "decrepitude"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.