euthanasie
See also: Euthanasie and euthanasié
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
- euthanasia (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Likely borrowed from French euthanasie. The spelling with -ie has been attested since the 1840s. Before then the Latinate spelling euthanasia was used, which was borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐθανασίᾱ (euthanasíā) in the seventeenth century.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
euthanasie f (uncountable)
- Euthanasia (medically assisted killing).
- (obsolete) Any gentle or good death.
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐθανασία (euthanasía).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
euthanasie f (plural euthanasies)
- euthanasia (practice of killing a human being or animal)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
- → Czech: eutanazie
- → Dutch: euthanasie
- → German: Euthanasie
- → Estonian: eutanaasia
- → Japanese: オイタナジー (oitanajī)
- → Japanese: ユータナジー (yūtanajī)
- → Romanian: eutanasie
- → Serbo-Croatian: eutanázija
- → Swedish: eutanasi
- → Turkish: ötanazi
Verb edit
euthanasie
- inflection of euthanasier:
Further reading edit
- “euthanasie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.