rheuma
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈreu̯.ma/, [ˈrɛu̯mä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈreu̯.ma/, [ˈrɛːu̯mä]
Noun edit
rheuma n (genitive rheumatis); third declension
- tide (of the sea)
- Beda Venerabilis, C.730 AD Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.III.3:
- Qui videlicet locus accedente ac recedente reumate, bis cotidie instar insulae maris circumluitur undis, bis renudato littore contiguus terrae redditur.
- This same place, each and every day as the tide ebbs and goes, is twice surrounded and washed like an island by the sea waves, as is twice, its shores dried, rendered back contiguous with land.
- Qui videlicet locus accedente ac recedente reumate, bis cotidie instar insulae maris circumluitur undis, bis renudato littore contiguus terrae redditur.
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rheuma | rheumata |
| Genitive | rheumatis | rheumatum |
| Dative | rheumatī | rheumatibus |
| Accusative | rheuma | rheumata |
| Ablative | rheumate | rheumatibus |
| Vocative | rheuma | rheumata |
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References edit
- “rheuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rheuma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rheuma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.