tabes

English

Etymology

From Latin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɪbiːz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪbiz

Noun

tabes (plural tabes)

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

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂w- (“to melt”). Cognates include Sanskrit तोय (toya, “water”), Ancient Greek τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”), τῖφος (tîphos, “pond, swamp”), Old English þawian and English thaw

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtaː.bes/, [ˈtaː.bɛs]

Noun

tābes f (genitive tābis); third declension

  1. melting, dwindling, consumption, corruption, putrefaction
  2. wasting disease, infection
    • 86 BCE – c. 35 BCE, Sallust, The Jugurthine War Ch. 32
      tanta vis auaritiae in animos eorum ueluti tabes invaserat
      a zeal for covetousness the like of an infection arose in them

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tābes tābēs
genitive tābis tābium
dative tābī tābibus
accusative tābem
tābim		 tābēs
tābīs
ablative tābe
tābī		 tābibus
vocative tābes tābēs

Derived terms

Descendants

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
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