labefactans

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of labefactō (“weaken, destroy”)

Participle

labefactāns (genitive labefactantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. weakening, causing to weaken
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.3:
      An vērō vir amplissimus, P. Scīpiō, pontifex maximus, Ti. Gracchum mediocriter labefactantem statum reī pūblicae prīvātus interfēcit.
      But in fact that most illustrious man, Publius Scipio, the chief priest, [who was acting] as a private citizen, killed Tiberius Gracchus, [who had been] moderately weakening the state of the republic.
      (Cicero’s deliberate understatement in reference to an historic political upheaval would have stirred the blood of his senatorial audience. See: Tiberius Gracchus.)
  2. destroying

Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative labefactāns labefactantēs labefactantia
genitive labefactantis labefactantium
dative labefactantī labefactantibus
accusative labefactantem labefactāns labefactantēs
labefactantīs 		labefactantia
ablative labefactante
labefactantī1 		labefactantibus
vocative labefactāns labefactantēs labefactantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

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