nausea

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See also: náusea and nàusea

English

Etymology

From Middle English nausea, a borrowing from Latin nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía, “sea-sickness”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. Displaced native Old English wlǣtta.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɔːzɪə/, /ˈnɔːsɪə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈnɔzi.ə/, /ˈnɔsi.ə/, /ˈnɔʒə/, /ˈnɔʃə/
  • (US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈnɑzi.ə/, /ˈnɑsi.ə/, /ˈnɑʒə/, /ˈnɑʃə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːziə
  • Hyphenation: nau‧sea

Noun

nausea (countable and uncountable, plural nauseas or nauseae or nauseæ)

  1. A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.
  2. Strong dislike or disgust.
  3. Motion sickness.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

motion sickness — see motion sickness
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Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin nausea, nausia, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía, “seasickness”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”).

Noun

nausea f (plural nausee)

  1. nausea
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nausea

  1. inflection of nauseare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

nausea f (genitive nauseae); first declension

  1. nausea
  2. seasickness
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nausea nauseae
Genitive nauseae nauseārum
Dative nauseae nauseīs
Accusative nauseam nauseās
Ablative nauseā nauseīs
Vocative nausea nauseae
Descendants
  • → English: nausea
  • → French: nausée, noise
  • → Italian: nausea
  • → Portuguese: náusea
  • → Spanish: náusea
  • → Catalan: nàusea

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nauseā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of nauseō

References

  • “nausea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nausea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nausea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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