different between disease vs cacoethes

English

Alternative forms

• (uneasiness): dis-ease

Etymology

From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Equivalent to dis- +? ease. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ?dl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-z?z? IPA^(key): /d??zi?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z

Noun

disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)

1. (pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
   • November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10

     The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; [...]
2. (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
   • 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7

     War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.

3. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:disease

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)

1. (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
2. To infect with a disease.

Anagrams

• Seaside, seaside

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caco?thes, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kako?th?s, “ill-disposed”) from ????? (kakós, “bad”) + ???? (êthos, “disposition, nature”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kak???i??i?z/
• Hyphenation: ca?co?e?thes

Noun

cacoethes (plural cacoethe)

1. Compulsion; mania.
2. (medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with cacoethics (“bad ethics or morals; bad habits”).

Alternative forms

• cacoëthes

Derived terms

• cacoethic
• cacoethical
• cacoethically

Translations

Anagrams

• coteaches

Latin

Etymology

Ancient Greek ???????? (kakó?thes), the neuter form of ???????? (kako?th?s, “ill-disposed”), from ????? (kakós, “bad”) + ???? (êthos, “disposition, nature”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.ko?e?.t?es/, [käko?e?t???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.ko?e.tes/, [k?k????t??s]

Noun

caco?thes n (genitive caco?this); third declension

1. A malignant tumour or disease.
2. Mania, especially for writing.

Declension

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

References

• cacoethes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cacoethes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cacoethes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette