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noun, feminine

infirmité

/ɛ̃.fiʁ.mi.te/

noun, feminine/ɛ̃.fiʁ.mi.te/plural: infirmités

disability, impairment; infirmity

Inherited from Middle French infirmité, borrowed from Latin īnfirmitātem. By surface analysis, infirme + -ité. See also fermeté, and the Old French forms anfermeté, enferté, which were subsequently learnedly modified to be closer to the Latin form.