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disease
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)
- (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; [...]
- November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
- (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.
- 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
- 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)
- (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
- To infect with a disease.
Anagrams
- Seaside, seaside
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fastigium
English
Etymology
From Latin fastigium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæs?t?d?.i.?m/
Noun
fastigium (plural fastigia)
- An apex or summit; culmination.
- (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
- (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *farstjagjom, from Proto-Indo-European *b?érstis, from *b?ers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fas?ti?.?i.um/, [fäs??t?i??i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fas?ti.d??i.um/, [f?s?t?i?d??ium]
Noun
fast?gium n (genitive fast?gi? or fast?g?); second declension
- peak, summit, top
- slope, declivity, descent
- gable
- sharp point
- highlight (of a story or poem)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- fast?g?
Descendants
- French: faîte (partially)
- Spanish: hastial
- ? Portuguese: fastígio
- ? Spanish: fastigio
References
- fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fastigium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- fastigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- fastigium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fastigium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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