hydrophobia

English

Etymology

From Latin hydrophobia, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφοβία (hudrophobía).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhʌɪdɹəˈfəʊbɪə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪdɹəˈfoʊbɪə/
Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

hydrophobia (countable and uncountable, plural hydrophobias)

(pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; rabies itself.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , II.12:
  Cato, who scorned both death and fortune, could not abide the sight of a looking glasse or of water; overcome with horrour, and quelled with amazement, if by the contagion of a mad dog he had fallen into that sicknesse which physitians call hydrophobia, or feare of waters.
(psychology, colloquial) Fear of water

Usage notes

Fear of water is technically called aquaphobia, so not to be confused with rabies.

Translations

(pathology) rabies — See also translations at rabies

Danish: rabies (da), hundegalskab (da)
Esperanto: hidrofobio
Finnish: vesikauhu (fi)
German: Tollwut (de) f
Hungarian: veszettség (hu)

Irish: hidreafóibe f
Malay: hidrofobia, penyakit anjing gila
Portuguese: raiva (pt) f
Russian: водобоя́знь (ru) f (vodobojáznʹ)

fear of water — See also translations at aquaphobia

Danish: hydrofobi (da)
Esperanto: akvofobio
Finnish: veden pelko
German: Wasserscheu (de) f
Hungarian: hidrofóbia (hu), víziszony (hu)
Malay: hidrofobia

Portuguese: hidrofobia (pt) f
Russian: водобоя́знь (ru) f (vodobojáznʹ), гидрофо́бия (ru) f (gidrofóbija)
Spanish: hidrofobia (es)
Swedish: hydrofobi
Tagalog: tubigsikway

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Telugu: ^{(please verify)} నీటిభయం (nīṭibhayaṃ), ^{(please verify)} జలగండం (jalagaṇḍaṃ)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑδροφοβία (hudrophobía).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /hy.droˈpʰo.bi.a/, [hʏ.drɔˈpʰɔ.bi.a]

Noun

hydrophobia f (genitive hydrophobiae); first declension

hydrophobia

Related terms

References

hydrophobia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
hydrophobia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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