tussis

See also: Tussis

English

Etymology

Latin tussis (“cough”)

Noun

tussis (uncountable)

1. A cough.
   • 1902, Robert M. Tooker, “The Homœopathic Treatment of Whooping Cough”, in The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 50, page 48:

     In cachectic subjects, or in a strumous child the victim is never safe when the diathesis is reinforced by any contagion which further undermines a constitution built on sand. Even in such cases the force of the tussis attack can be rendered less forceful by judicious treatment and proper care.

   • 1971, Edward Wagenknecht, James Russell Lowell; Portrait of a Many-sided Man, page 224:

     Except of my coffin, / For what can I else with this horrible tussis?

   • 2010, Karen Bowden-Cox, Honorable Passage: Repaying Evil With..., page 156:

     As George whittled the lengthy wood, his tussis nearly cured, he found himself surrounded by curious lads and lasses.

Translations

cough — see cough

See also

• tussic, tussive, tussal, tussicular
• tussiculation

Anagrams

• suists

Catalan

Verb

tussis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of tossir

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tussis, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). The unexpected lack of vowel lengthening of the u and the consonant gemination of the s in the Proto-Italic form may be from onomatopoeic influence. Cognate with Old English aþytan (“to expel”), Old Norse aþiota (“to expel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtus.sis/, [ˈt̪ʊs̠ːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtus.sis/, [ˈt̪usːis]

Noun

tussis f (genitive tussis); third declension

1. cough

Usage notes

In the plural, tussēs indicates a severe cough.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tussis	tussēs
Genitive	tussis	tussium
Dative	tussī	tussibus
Accusative	tussim	tussēs tussīs
Ablative	tussī	tussibus
Vocative	tussis	tussēs

Derived terms

• tussēdō
• tussicula
• tussiculāris
• tussiculōsus
• tussicus
• tussiēns
• tussiō

Descendants

• Aromanian: tusi, tuse
• Asturian: tos, tus
• Catalan: tos
• English: pertussis
• French: toux
• Friulian: tos
• Galician: tose
• Italian: tosse
• Norman: toux
• Occitan: tos
• Piedmontese: toss
• Portuguese: tosse
• Romanian: tuse
• Sardinian: tusciu, tussi
• Sicilian: tussi
• Spanish: tos
• Venetian: tose, tos
• Walloon: tosse

References

• “tussis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tussis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tussis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.