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Italian
Noun
apostema m or f (masculine plural apostemi, feminine plural aposteme)
- Synonym of postema
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin apostēma, from Ancient Greek απόστημα (apóstēma). First attested in c. 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -emɐ
- Hyphenation: a‧pos‧te‧ma
Noun
apostema m (plural apostemas)
- (pathology) aposteme (a pustulent swelling)
1895 [1563], Garcia de Orta, edited by Count of Ficalho, Coloquios dos simples e drogas da India, volume II, Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, page 234, column 45:[...] porque eu sei, que nas chaguas de todalas mordeduras venenosas aproveita, e nas apostemas da peste, quando estam abertas, aproveita muyto- because I know, that in the wounds of all poisonous bites it takes advantage, and in the apostemes of the plague, when they are open, it takes advantage very much
- (figurative) disgust
Derived terms
References
- ^ José Pedro Machado (1995) “Apostema”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 282
Etymology 2
Verb
apostema
- inflection of apostemar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative