Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

valetudinary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vale-tu-di-nary
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.

Obsolete

noun

A sickly, infirm person.

Dated

Example Sentences

""His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy."
"It produces a weak valetudinary state of body, attended by all those horrid disorders, and yet more horrid methods of cure, which are the result of luxury on the one hand, and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other."

Etymology

From Latin valētūdin- + -ary, from oblique stem of Latin valētūdō, from valeō + -tūdō. By surface analysis, valetude + -arian. Doublet of valetudinarious.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: valētūdō
Suffix: -ary, valeō

Usage

Inflected Forms

more valetudinary (comparative) most valetudinary (superlative) valetudinaries (plural)

Derived Forms

invaletudinary valetudinariness

Frequently Paired Words

valetudinarianism

Synonyms

valetudinarian

Questions

What does valetudinary mean?: Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.
Where does valetudinary come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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