asthmatic

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /æsˈθmætɪk/, /æsˈmætɪk/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /æzˈmætɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

asthmatic (comparative more asthmatic, superlative most asthmatic)

  1. Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
    • 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories‎, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
      The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

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Noun

asthmatic (plural asthmatics)

  1. A person who suffers from asthma.

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