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語源

Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “to waste away”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈ(f)θaɪsɪs/, /ˈtaɪsɪs/
• ハイフネーション: phthi‧sis

名詞

phthisis (countable and uncountable, plural phthises)

1. (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.

派生語

関連する語

• phthisic

参考

語源

From the Ancient Greek φθῐ́σῐς (phthĭ́sĭs).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpʰtʰɪ.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈftiː.s̬is]

名詞

phthisis f (genitive phthisis); third declension

1. consumption, phthisis, tuberculosis
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 91.5:

     Invadit temperantissimos morbus, validissimos phthisis, innocentissimos poena, secretissimos tumultus.

     The most temperate are assailed by illness, the strongest by wasting disease, the most innocent by chastisement, the most secluded by the noisy mob.

   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 6.14:

     Inde tussis et macies, et ad ultimum phthisis invadit.

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   • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 5.13.95-96:

     et phthisis et vomicae putres et dimidium crus/sunt tanti.

     Lung disease, or festering abscesses, or even the loss of a leg are worth it.

   • c. 125 CE – c. 180 CE, Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 4.2:

     Totius corporis morbum esse, veluti sit phthisis aut febris, partis autem, veluti sit caecitas aut pedis debilitas.

     That a disease of the whole body is, for example, consumption or fever, but of a part of the body anything like blindness or lameness.

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語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

同意語

• (consumption, phthisis, tuberculosis): phthoē

派生語

• phthisicō

関連する語

• phthisicus

派生した語

• English: phthisis
• Italian: tisi

参照

• “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)