tussis

See also: Tussis

English

Etymology

From 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.

Derived terms

• tussigenic

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 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-

Proto-Indo-European *-tís

Proto-Indo-European *tudtís

Proto-Italic *tussis

Latin tussis

Inherited from Proto-Italic *tussis, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-tí-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

• tussis:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊs.sɪs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtus.sis]
• tussīs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊs.siːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtus.sis]

Noun

tussis f (genitive tussis); third declension

1. cough

Usage notes

• The plural tussēs is used to indicate a coughing fit.

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	tussis	tussēs
genitive	tussis	tussium
dative	tussī	tussibus
accusative	tussim	tussēs tussīs
ablative	tussī	tussibus
vocative	tussis	tussēs

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Aromanian: tusi, tuse
• Asturian: tos, tus
• Catalan: tos
• Emilian: tåss
• English: pertussis
• French: toux
• Friulian: tos
• Galician: tose
• Italian: tosse
• Mirandese: tuosse
• Norman: toux
• Occitan: tos
• Piedmontese: toss
• Portuguese: tosse
• Romanian: tuse
• Sardinian: tusciu, tussi
• Sicilian: tussi
• >? Tashelhit: tusut
• Spanish: tos
• Venetan: tose, tos
• Walloon: tosse

Noun

tussīs

1. accusative plural of tussēs

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊs.siːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtus.sis]

Verb

tussīs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of tussiō

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtuːs.siːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtus.sis]

Participle

tūssīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of tūssus

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.