tabes

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tabes (plural tabes)

  1. (medicine) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *tāw- (“to melt”). Cognate with Old English þāwian (“to thaw”). More at thaw.

Noun[edit]

tābes (genitive tābis); f, third declension

  1. melting, dwindling, consumption, corruption, putrefaction
  2. wasting disease

Inflection[edit]

Number Singular Plural
nominative tābes tābēs
genitive tābis tābium
dative tābī tābibus
accusative tābim

tābem

 tābīs

tābēs
ablative tābī

tābe

 tābibus
vocative tābes tābēs
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