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cadaver

English

Etymology

Recorded since c.1500, borrowed from Latin cad?ver.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /k??dæv.?(?)/, /k??d??v.?(?)/, /k??de?.v?(?)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /k??dæv?/
  • Hyphenation: ca?dav?er

Noun

cadaver (plural cadavers)

  1. A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:corpse, Thesaurus:body
  • body
  • corpse

Derived terms

  • cadaveric
  • cadaverine
  • cadaverous
  • cadaverize
  • cadaverously
  • cadaverousness
  • cadaver dog

Related terms

  • cadence

Translations

References


Latin

Etymology

From the Latin verb cad? (I fall), as a euphemism for dying, "the fallen one". This etymology is found as early as ca. 200 C.E. in the writings of Tertullian, who associated cadaver to cadendo : Atque adeo caro est quae morte subruitur, ut exinde a cadendo cadaver enuntietur, in English Indeed, the flesh is that which is subsumed by death, and may thereafter be termed "cadaver." (Tertullian, De Resurrectione Carnis).

A folk etymology derives cadaver syllabically from the Latin expression caro data vermibus (flesh given to worms). This etymology, more popular in Romance countries, can be traced back as early as the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ka?da?.u?er/, [kä?d?ä?u??r]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka?da.ver/, [k??d???v?r]

Noun

cad?ver n (genitive cad?veris); third declension

  1. A corpse, cadaver, carcass

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

  • cad?ver?sus (seemingly dead)

Descendants

References

  • cadaver in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cadaver in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cadaver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • cadaver in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cadaver in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Tertullian. On the Resurrection of the Flesh. Chapter 18.
    Quote: “So that it is the flesh which falls by death; and accordingly it derives its name, cadaver, from cadendo.” [3]

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death

English

Alternative forms

  • deth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English deeth, from Old English d?aþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ówtus. Equivalent to die +? -th. More at die.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: d?th, IPA(key): /d??/
  • Rhymes: -??
  • (West Country) IPA(key): /di??/
  • Homophones: debt (with th-stopping), deaf (with th-fronting)

Noun

death (countable and uncountable, plural deaths)

  1. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
    1. Execution (in the judicial sense).
  2. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English d?aþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male ???????? (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics.
  3. (the death) The collapse or end of something.
    • 1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand (page 90)
      He may even find himself being blamed if the project dies a quick and horrible death at the box office or is unceremoniously axed by the network.
    1. (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
  4. (figuratively) Spiritual lifelessness.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:death

Derived terms

Pages starting with “death”.

Translations

See also

Further reading

  • The Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Anagrams

  • Theda, hated

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