convalescent

Etymology

From French convalescent, from Latin convalescens.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

convalescent (not comparable)

1. Recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"

2. Of convalescence or convalescents (see below).

Noun

convalescent (plural convalescents)

1. A person recovering from illness.

   I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent.

Adjective

convalescent (feminine singular convalescente, masculine plural convalescents, feminine plural convalescentes)

1. convalescent

Noun

convalescent m (plural convalescents, feminine convalescente)

1. convalescent

Verb

convalēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of convalēscō