"lassitude" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlæsɪˌtjuːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈlæsɪˌtud/ [General-American] Forms: lassitudes [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassitūdō (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|lassitude}} French lassitude, {{der|en|la|lassitūdō||faintness, weariness}} Latin lassitūdō (“faintness, weariness”), {{cog|en|late}} English late Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} lassitude (countable and uncountable, plural lassitudes)
  1. Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, langour, listlessness Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (lethargy): умора (umora) [feminine] (Bulgarian), изтощение (iztoštenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), loomheid [feminine] (Dutch), lusteloosheid [feminine] (Dutch), matheid [feminine] (Dutch), अवसाद (avsād) [masculine] (Hindi), तंद्रा (tandrā) [feminine] (Hindi), leisce [feminine] (Irish), lassitūdō [feminine] (Latin), за́мор (zámor) [masculine] (Macedonian), исцр́пеност (iscŕpenost) [feminine] (Macedonian), maiorohea (note: as a result of illness) (Maori), wherūtanga (Maori), ro(w)hea (Maori), یورغونلق (yorgunluk) (Ottoman Turkish), كلال (kelal) (Ottoman Turkish), lassidão [feminine] (Portuguese), уста́лость (ustálostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), утомле́ние (utomlénije) [neuter] (Russian), апа́тия (apátija) [feminine] (Russian), lasitud (Spanish), trötthet [common-gender] (Swedish), matthet (Swedish), yorgunluk (Turkish), bitkinlik (Turkish), halsizlik (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). 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.