英语词汇decrepit的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	decrepit
词源	decrepit. “Very old, at the pittes (pit’s) brink,” instructs a 16th-century Latin dictionary in defining this word. Decrepit means more specifically, “weak, worn out, broken by age, ill- ness or hard use.” It comes from Latin decrepitus, meaning the same, which comes ultimately from Latin crepare, “to creak,” which those of us decrepit, or on our way there, often do.
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