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tussis

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin tussis (“cough”).

Noun

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tussis (uncountable)

  1. A cough.
    • 1902, Robert M. Tooker, “The Homœopathic Treatment of Whooping Cough”, in The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 50, page 48:
      In cachectic subjects, or in a strumous child the victim is never safe when the diathesis is reinforced by any contagion which further undermines a constitution built on sand. Even in such cases the force of the tussis attack can be rendered less forceful by judicious treatment and proper care.
    • 1971, Edward Wagenknecht, James Russell Lowell; Portrait of a Many-sided Man, page 224:
      Except of my coffin, / For what can I else with this horrible tussis?
    • 2010, Karen Bowden-Cox, Honorable Passage: Repaying Evil With..., page 156:
      As George whittled the lengthy wood, his tussis nearly cured, he found himself surrounded by curious lads and lasses.

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Verb

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tussis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of tossir

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *tussis, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). The unexpected lack of vowel lengthening of the u and the consonant gemination of the s in the Proto-Italic form may be from onomatopoeic influence.[1] Cognate with Old English aþytan (“to expel”), Old Norse aþiota (“to expel”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tussis f (genitive tussis); third declension

  1. cough

Usage notes

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In the plural, tussēs indicates a severe cough.

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tussis tussēs
Genitive tussis tussium
Dative tussī tussibus
Accusative tussim tussēs
tussīs
Ablative tussī tussibus
Vocative tussis tussēs

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References

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  • “tussis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tussis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tussis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635
  2. ^ Wood, Indo-European Ax: Axi: Axu: A Study in Ablaut and in Word Formation, p. 59
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