rheuma

Latin

Alternative forms

• reuma

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreu̯.ma/, [ˈrɛu̯mä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈreu̯.ma/, [ˈrɛːu̯mä]

Noun

rheuma n (genitive rheumatis); third declension

1. catarrh, rheum

1. 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.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rheuma	rheumata
Genitive	rheumatis	rheumatum
Dative	rheumatī	rheumatibus
Accusative	rheuma	rheumata
Ablative	rheumate	rheumatibus
Vocative	rheuma	rheumata

Derived terms

• rheumaticus
• rheumatismus

Descendants

• → English: rheum
• → French: rhume
• → Irish: réama
• → Italian: reuma
• → Spanish: reuma

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.