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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why is Imbacillis weak not dim?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess the etymology of the English word imbecile comes from a Latin word meaning physically weak.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Exactly. It came to mean "mentally weak."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Romans were not great at English I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Imbécillis. They're not germy or diseased

(well they might be but that's not the only way to be weak)