apoplexie

apoplexie (countable and uncountable, plural apoplexies)

1. Obsolete spelling of apoplexy.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:

     This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie, a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.

   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:

     […] firſt, becauſe inſenſible diſeaſes are in themſelues moſt deſperate, as the Lethargie, dead palſie, apoplexie.

   • 1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent ‎, London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 97, page 43:

     And although in March, Captaine George Fransperg was taken with a fit of an Apoplexie, which caused his death, yet because the army was entred into the 'Ecclesiasticall State, and still marched forward, the Pope in the end of the moneth, resolued to come to an accord […]

Borrowed from Late Latin apoplexia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποπληξία (apoplēxía).

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.poː.plɛkˈsi/

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• Hyphenation: apo‧ple‧xie
• Rhymes: -i

apoplexie f (plural apoplexieën)

1. (medicine) apoplexy

• apoplectisch

• → Indonesian: apoplèksi

Borrowed from Late Latin apoplexia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποπληξία (apoplēxía).

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apoplexie f (plural apoplexies)

1. (medicine) apoplexy

• apoplectique

• → Romanian: apoplexie

• “apoplexie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from Late Latin apoplexia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποπληξία (apoplēxía).

apoplexie f (plural apoplexies)

1. (Jersey, medicine) apoplexy

Borrowed from French apoplexie, from Latin apoplexia.

apoplexie f (plural apoplexii)

1. apoplexy