different between incurable vs cacoethes

English

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n?kj????bl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?kj???bl/

Adjective

incurable (not comparable)

1. Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
   • 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading

     They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

Synonyms

• uncurable

Antonyms

• curable

Derived terms

• incurable romantic, … optimist, … dreamer

Related terms

• incurability
• terminal

Translations

Noun

incurable (plural incurables)

1. One who cannot be cured.

Anagrams

• binuclear

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin incurabilis, attested from 1460.

Adjective

incurable (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguarible

   Antonyms: curable, guarible

Related terms

• incurabilitat

References

Further reading

• “incurable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incurable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incurable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Late Latin incurabilis.

Adjective

incurable (plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguérissable

   Antonyms: curable, guérissable

Further reading

• “incurable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

incurable m or f (plural incurables)

1. incurable

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin inc?r?bilis.

Adjective

incurable (plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Antonym: curable

Related terms

• incurabilidad

Further reading

• “incurable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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