rheuma
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈreu̯.ma/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈreu̯.ma/,
Noun
rheuma n (genitive rheumatis); third declension
- tide (of the sea)
- Beda Venerabilis, C.730 AD Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.III.3:
- Qui videlicet locus accedente ac recedente reumate, bis cotidie instar insulae maris circumluitur undis, bis renudato littore contiguus terrae redditur.
- This same place, each and every day as the tide ebbs and goes, is twice surrounded and washed like an island by the sea waves, as is twice, its shores dried, rendered back contiguous with land.
- Qui videlicet locus accedente ac recedente reumate, bis cotidie instar insulae maris circumluitur undis, bis renudato littore contiguus terrae redditur.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rheuma | rheumata |
| genitive | rheumatis | rheumatum |
| dative | rheumatī | rheumatibus |
| accusative | rheuma | rheumata |
| ablative | rheumate | rheumatibus |
| vocative | rheuma | rheumata |
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References
- “rheuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rheuma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rheuma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.