marasmus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin marasmus, from Ancient Greek μᾰρᾰσμός (mărăsmós, “withering”, noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈɹæz.məs/

Noun

marasmus (countable and uncountable, plural marasmuses)

1. (medicine) A condition of chronic undernourishment especially in children, caused by a diet deficient in calories or the inability to digest protein and presenting as a severe loss of body weight.

   Hyponym: marasmus senilis

   • 2015, Angus Deaton, “4 Health in the Modern World”, in The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality‎^[1], page 163:

     Indian children are still among the skinniest and shortest on the planet, but they are taller and plumper than were their parents or grandparents, and the signs of gross hunger, such as marasmus, are now rarely seen in nutritional surveys.

Derived terms

• marasmic
• marasmoid

Related terms

• marantic
• marasmatic

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消瘦 (zh) (xiāoshòu)

• Esperanto: marasmo (eo), subnutrado
• Finnish: marasmi
• French: marasme (fr) m
• Georgian: მარაზმი (marazmi)
• German: Marasmus (de) m
• Ido: marasmo (io)
• Italian: marasma (it) m
• Japanese: マラスムス (marasumasu)
• Portuguese: marasmo (pt) m
• Russian: мара́зм (ru) m (marázm)
• Spanish: marasmo (es) m
• Swedish: marasm c, avtynande

References

• “marasmus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “marasmus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μᾰρᾰσμός (mărăsmós, “withering”, noun), related to μᾰραίνω (măraínō, “to quench; to waste, wither”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maˈras.mus/, [mäˈräs̠mʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈras.mus/, [mäˈräzmus]

Noun

marasmus m (genitive marasmī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. (medicine) marasmus

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	marasmus	marasmī
genitive	marasmī	marasmōrum
dative	marasmō	marasmīs
accusative	marasmum	marasmōs
ablative	marasmō	marasmīs
vocative	marasme	marasmī

Descendants

• → English: marasmus