Adjective: enfermo
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | enfermo |
| Singular f. | enferma |
| Plural m. | enfermos |
| Plural f. | enfermas |
Sample Sentences
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Cauallo que ha a door no corpo dentro contynoadamente ten as orellas fryas et os ollos couos he mal enfermo (the horse who has pain inside his body continuously, has the ears cold and the eyes hollow, is badly ill) [1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 157:]
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a situación tristísima e máis que lamentábel da súa nai, enferma, sin recursos e, para maor desgracia, de xenio tan atufado, enrenico e mal cabido, que naide se ladaba con ela (the very sad and lamentable position of her mother, sick, resourceless and, adding insult to injury, having such a haughty, rude and misfit temper, that none got along with her) [1895, A. López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 170:]
Adjectives inflected like enfermo
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese enfermo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin īnfirmus. See: Latin Adjectives '
īnfirmus'.
Translations