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apostema

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Italian

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Noun

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apostema m or f (masculine plural apostemi, feminine plural aposteme)

  1. Synonym of postema

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin apostēma, from Ancient Greek απόστημα (apóstēma). First attested in c. 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -emɐ
  • Hyphenation: a‧pos‧te‧ma

Noun

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apostema m (plural apostemas)

  1. (pathology) aposteme (a pustulent swelling)
    • 1895 [1563], Garcia de Orta, edited by Count of Ficalho, Coloquios dos simples e drogas da India, volume II, Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, page 234, column 45:
      [...] porque eu sei, que nas chaguas de todalas mordeduras venenosas aproveita, e nas apostemas da peste, quando estam abertas, aproveita muyto
      because I know, that in the wounds of all poisonous bites it takes advantage, and in the apostemes of the plague, when they are open, it takes advantage very much
  2. (figurative) disgust
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ José Pedro Machado (1995) “Apostema”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 282

Etymology 2

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Verb

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apostema

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