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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νοσέω (noséō, “I am sick”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nó.sɛː.ma/ → /ˈno.si.ma/ → /ˈno.si.ma/
Noun
νόσημᾰ • (nósēma) n (genitive νοσήμᾰτος); third declension
- sickness, disease, plague, affliction
409 BCE,
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 755:
- δεινόν γε τοὐπίσαγμα τοῦ νοσήματος.
- deinón ge toupísagma toû nosḗmatos.
- Frightful must be the burden of your illness!
- (figurative)
525 BCE – 455 BCE,
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound 227:
- ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι νόσημα, τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθέναι
- énesti gár pōs toûto têi turannídi nósēma, toîs phíloisi mḕ pepoithénai
- For it is a disease that is somehow inherent in tyranny, to have no faith in friends.
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Further reading
- “νόσημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νόσημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νόσημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3553 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 232, 616