phthisis
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “I waste away”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈ(f)θaɪsɪs/, /ˈtaɪsɪs/
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Noun
editphthisis (countable and uncountable, plural phthises)
- (archaic) An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- c. 1830-40's, Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar:Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe:
- For some months to my becoming acquainted with him, his physicians had declared him in a confirmed phthisis. It was his custom, indeed, to speak calmly of his approaching dissolution, as a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- Tired from his journey and his chronic lung weakness, which he had saved from turning to phthisis by winter sojourns in Egypt, he was yet goodhumoured enough when his deputy reported the arrival of a gang of Jews who wanted judgment on something or someone.
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Latin
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editEtymology
editFrom the Ancient Greek φθῐ́σῐς (phthísis).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpʰtʰi.sis/, [ˈpʰt̪ʰɪs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfti.sis/, [ˈft̪iːs̬is]
Noun
editphthisis f (genitive phthisis); third declension
- consumption, phthisis, tuberculosis
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Declension
editThird-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | phthisis | phthisēs |
Genitive | phthisis | phthisium |
Dative | phthisī | phthisibus |
Accusative | phthisem | phthisēs phthisīs |
Ablative | phthise | phthisibus |
Vocative | phthisis | phthisēs |
Synonyms
edit- (consumption, phthisis, tuberculosis): phthoē
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editReferences
edit- “phthĭsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “phthisis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- phthĭsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,177/3.
- “p(h)thisis” on page 1,376/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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