NERVOUS Copy link • NERVOUSOf or belonging to the nerves, nervosus. Nervous system, nervi (the nerves, as Cels., 1, praef., p. 23, Bip., validi nervi an infirmi; i. e., a strong or weak nervous system): a nervous disease, nervorum morbus (not morbus nerveus): nervous fever, febris nervosa. Strong in nerve, nervosus (PROP.; then figuratively = strong, powerful; of style, of an orator, etc. ☞ Only in very late Latin for powerful or vigorous in body): lacertosus, robustus, validus (muscular, robust, strong in body; of men and animals): quibusdam nervis intentus (figuratively, strong, vigorous; of style, etc.): vibrans (figuratively, of style, of ideas). In a nervous manner, nervose (e.g., dicere). Weak in the nerves, aeger nervis (Tac., Ann., 15, 45, 3): nervis infirmis (after Cels., 1, praef., p. 23, Bip.): *nervis infirmis or resolutis laborans. A nervous state of body, nervorum valetudo (Suet., Vesp., 7); nervi infirmi (Cels. 1, praef., p. 23, Bip.; opposed to nervi validi): a nervous frame, corpus propter nervorum valetudinem collapsum (after Suet., Vesp., 7, and Verg., Georg., 3, 485).