septicaemia

See also: septicæmia

English

Noun

septicaemia (countable and uncountable, plural septicaemias)

  1. Alternative spelling of septicemia

Latin

Etymology

New Latin, from sēpticus (“putrifying”), from Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “septic”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /seːp.tiˈkae̯.mi.a/, [seːp.tɪˈkae̯.mi.a]

Noun

sēpticaemia f (genitive sēpticaemiae); first declension

  1. septicemia
    • 1904, F. J. Poynton & W. V. Shaw, "On the relation of Staphylococcus pyogenes aueus to rheumatic fever", Transactions of the Pathological Society of London‎, 55: 127-128
      Quotiens autem injectio staphylococci aurei injectionem diplococci rheumatici subsequebatur, totiens evenit morbus quidam pyæmicus, aut septicaemia quae cito mortem attulit.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative sēpticaemia sēpticaemiae
genitive sēpticaemiae sēpticaemiārum
dative sēpticaemiae sēpticaemiīs
accusative sēpticaemiam sēpticaemiās
ablative sēpticaemiā sēpticaemiīs
vocative sēpticaemia sēpticaemiae
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