fastidium
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin fastīdium (“loathing, disgust”).
Noun
[edit]fastidium (uncountable)
- (medicine, archaic) repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By haplology perhaps from *fastutidium, from fastus (“disdain”) + taedium (“weariness”).[1]
Noun
[edit]fastīdium n (genitive fastīdiī or fastīdī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fastīdium | fastīdia |
| genitive | fastīdiī fastīdī1 |
fastīdiōrum |
| dative | fastīdiō | fastīdiīs |
| accusative | fastīdium | fastīdia |
| ablative | fastīdiō | fastīdiīs |
| vocative | fastīdium | fastīdia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: fastig, fàstic
- Galician: fastío
- → Italian: fastidio
- Portuguese: fastio
- Spanish: hastío; → fastidio
References
[edit]- “fastīdĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fastidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fastidium 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)
- fastidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 110