köken: Inherited from Old French chaitif, caitif, from Vulgar Latin *cactivus, from a combination of Latin captīvus (“prisoner”) with Transalpine Gaulish *caxtos, from Proto-Celtic *kaxtos (compare Irish cacht, Welsh caeth). Compare also Italian cattivo (“bad”). See also French captif, a borrowed doublet.
Il lui semblait chétif, faible, nul, enfin être un pauvre homme, de toutes les façons.
vain, overly proud (of one's appearance, status etc.) · idle, in vain, unfounded · petty, mere, insignificant, worthless
çekim: karşılaştırma ijdeler · üstünlük ijdelst
köken: From Middle Dutch idel, from Old Dutch īdil, from Proto-Germanic *īdalaz. Cognate with German eitel, English idle. The common Dutch loss of medial -d- led to the by-forms ijl and iel, which eventually acquired different meanings.
weak (lacking in force or ability) · weak (lacking in taste or potency) · who cannot handle their drink
zıt: forte, potente
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fraco, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin flaccus (“flaccid”). Compare Galician fraco and Spanish flaco. Doublet of flaco, related to flácido.
aile: ponto fraco
Minha irmã é fraca para bebida. Ela ficou bêbada com duas latas de cerveja.
very little, very small, tiny · puny, petty, insignificant
köken: Proto-Italic *put-sle-los → *pussillos followed by degemination via the so-called "mamilla rule", from Proto-Indo-European *put-lo- (“son”), historically standing in relation to pullus (“young of an animal”) as a diminutive. Latin cognates include pusillus, putillus (“tiny”), pūsus (“boy”), possibly Vulgar Latin *pūtta (“whore”). Further cognate to Faliscan putellio (“little son”, nom.sg.), Oscan…