FromMiddle Englishaffeeble, fromOld Frenchafeblir,afeblier, froma- +feblier(“weaken”), fromfieble(“feeble”). Seefeeble.
affeeble (third-person singular simple presentaffeebles,present participleaffeebling,simple past and past participleaffeebled)
William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “affeeble”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.