asthmatic
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /æsˈθmætɪk/, /æsˈmætɪk/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /æzˈmætɪk/
- Rhymes: -ætɪk
Adjective edit
asthmatic (comparative more asthmatic, superlative most asthmatic)
- Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
- 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories[1], Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
- The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
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Translations edit
having the characteristics of asthma
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Noun edit
asthmatic (plural asthmatics)
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person who suffers from asthma
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