apostema

Italian

Noun

apostema m or f (masculine plural apostemi, feminine plural aposteme)

1. Synonym of postema

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin apostēma, from Ancient Greek απόστημα (apóstēma). First attested in c. 16th century.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.posˈtẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.posˈtẽ.mɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.poʃˈtẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.posˈte.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.puʃˈte.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧pos‧te‧ma

Noun

apostema m (plural apostemas)

1. (pathology) aposteme (a pustulent swelling)
   • 1895 [1563], Garcia de Orta, edited by Count of Ficalho, Coloquios dos simples e drogas da India, volume II, Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, page 234, column 45:

     [...] porque eu sei, que nas chaguas de todalas mordeduras venenosas aproveita, e nas apostemas da peste, quando estam abertas, aproveita muyto

     because I know, that in the wounds of all poisonous bites it takes advantage, and in the apostemes of the plague, when they are open, it takes advantage very much

2. (figurative) disgust

Derived terms

• apostemático

References

• “apostema”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Etymology 2

Verb

apostema

1. inflection of apostemar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative