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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰχέκτης (kăkhéktēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
cachecta m (genitive cachectae); first declension
- a consumptive (sickly person)
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “căchecta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- căchectēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “234/3”