valetudinary

adjective

1. Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.

   obsolete

   "His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy.

Where it comes from

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

Related words

• valetudinarian

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry valetudinary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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