rheuma

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rheuma n (genitive rheumatis); third declension

  1. catarrh, rheum
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  1. tide (of the sea)
    • Beda Venerabilis, C.730 AD Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.III.3:
      Qui videlicet locus accedente ac recedente reumate, bis cotidie instar insulae maris circumluitur undis, bis renudato littore contiguus terrae redditur.
      This same place, each and every day as the tide ebbs and goes, is twice surrounded and washed like an island by the sea waves, as is twice, its shores dried, rendered back contiguous with land.

Declension

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rheuma rheumata
Genitive rheumatis rheumatum
Dative rheumatī rheumatibus
Accusative rheuma rheumata
Ablative rheumate rheumatibus
Vocative rheuma rheumata

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: rheum
  • French: rhume
  • Irish: réama
  • Italian: reuma
  • Spanish: reuma

References

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  • rheuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rheuma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rheuma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.