vibex

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vībex (“the mark of a blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪbɛks/

Noun

vibex (plural vibices)

1. (medicine) An extensive patch of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
   • 1865, S[amuel] O[sborne] Habershon, “Clinical Remarks on Diseases of the Skin”, in Samuel Wilks, editor, Guy's Hospital Reports (Third Series), volume XI, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 233:

     During the last winter, the child was again brought to me, but in a dying state, and the mother could not be persuaded to allow it to come into the hospital: it was as well-grown as children of its age, very anæmic, but with several purpurous spots, or rather vibices, upon the body; […] The poor mother afterwards came in great distress, because a medical practitioner, who had been called in to see the child, not recognising the nature of the malady, said there must be a coroner's inquest; the purpurous vibices upon the body being mistaken for the bruises of ill treatment.

References

• “vibices”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Alternative forms

• vībix

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weyb-, *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”). Compare Latin vibrō (“I shake, brandish”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.beks/, [ˈu̯iːbɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.beks/, [ˈviːbeks]

Noun

vībex f (genitive vībīcis); third declension

1. (pathology) wound left by a lash, weal or welt

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vībex vībix	vībīcēs
genitive	vībīcis	vībīcum
dative	vībīcī	vībīcibus
accusative	vībīcem	vībīcēs
ablative	vībīce	vībīcibus
vocative	vībex	vībīcēs

References

• “vibex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.