different between tabes vs tabus

English

Etymology

Latin t?bes

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?bi?z/
• Rhymes: -e?biz

Noun

tabes (countable and uncountable, plural tabes)

1. (medicine) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
   1. (more specifically) Tabes dorsalis.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *teh?- (“to melt”). Cognates include Sanskrit ??? (toya, “water”), Ancient Greek ???? (t?k?, “to melt”), ????? (tîphos, “pond, swamp”), Old English þawian and English thaw. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta?.be?s/, [?t?ä?be?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.bes/, [?t???b?s]

Noun

t?b?s f (genitive t?bis); third declension

1. the act of wasting away (due to a disease or by other means)
2. decay, putrefaction
3. foulness, stench
4. (figuratively) moral corruption
5. fluid from a wound
6. a fluid that results from melting or dissolving

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• t?be?
• t?bificus
• t?b?sc?
• t?bidus
• t?bificus
• t?bit?d?

Descendants

• Portuguese: tabe, tabes

References

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

Volapük

Noun

tabes

1. dative plural of tab

English

Noun

tabus

1. plural of tabu

Anagrams

• Taubs, abuts, buats, busta, butas, tsuba, tubas

Middle French

Etymology

Perhaps back formed from tabuster. More at Modern French tabac.

Noun

tabus m (plural tabus)

1. hit; strike

Synonyms

• coup

Volapük

Noun

tabus

1. predicative plural of tab