Thursday, October 14, 2021
Decrepit
Wallace M. Lindsay, ed., Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatu quae supersunt cum Pauli epitome (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1913), p. 62:
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Decrepitus est desperatus crepera iam vita, ut crepusculum extremum diei tempus. Sive decrepitus dictus, quia propter senectutem nec movere se, nec ullum facere potest crepitum.Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL), s.v. crepitus, cites this passage under the heading de ventre (4:1170, 79-80), i.e., here crepitum = crepitum ventris. TLL, s.v. decrepitus (5,1:217, 82), derives the adjective from de + crepare. For crepo with the meaning break wind, see TLL 4:1172, 42-48. If we accept Festus' explanation of decrepitus, describing someone who can't break wind because of old age, then I'm not decrepit yet.
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