cadaver
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) Recorded since c.1500, borrowed from Latin cadāver.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧dav‧er
Noun
cadaver (plural cadavers)
- A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:corpse, Thesaurus:body
- body
- corpse
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References
Latin
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From the Latin verb cadō (“I fall”), as a euphemism for dying, "the fallen one". This etymology is found as early as ca. 200 C.E. in the writings of Tertullian, who associated cadaver to cadendo : Atque adeo caro est quae morte subruitur, ut exinde a cadendo cadaver enuntietur. (Tertullian, De Resurrectione Carnis).
A folk etymology derives cadaver syllabically from the Latin expression caro data vermibus (flesh given to worms). This etymology, more popular in Romance countries, can be traced back as early as the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaˈdaː.u̯er/, [käˈd̪äːu̯ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈda.ver/, [käˈd̪äːver]
Noun
cadāver n (genitive cadāveris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cadāver | cadāvera |
Genitive | cadāveris | cadāverum |
Dative | cadāverī | cadāveribus |
Accusative | cadāver | cadāvera |
Ablative | cadāvere | cadāveribus |
Vocative | cadāver | cadāvera |
Derived terms
- cadāverōsus (seemingly dead)
Descendants
References
- “cadaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cadaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cadaver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cadaver”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cadaver”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Tertullian. On the Resurrection of the Flesh. Chapter 18.
Quote: “So that it is the flesh which falls by death; and accordingly it derives its name, cadaver, from cadendo.” [3]
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