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cadaverous

English

Etymology

cadaver +? -ous

Adjective

cadaverous (comparative more cadaverous, superlative most cadaverous)

  1. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
    • 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
      Dark blood flowed in the fosse,
      Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead ...

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:cadaverous

Translations

See also

  • cadaverously

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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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