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fastidium
fastidium
English
Noun
fastidium (uncountable)
- (medicine, archaic) repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from a *fastutidium, from fastus (“disdain, haughtiness, arrogance, disgust”).
Noun
fastīdium n (genitive fastīdiī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fastīdium | fastīdia |
| genitive | fastīdiī | fastīdiōrum |
| dative | fastīdiō | fastīdiīs |
| accusative | fastīdium | fastīdia |
| ablative | fastīdiō | fastīdiīs |
| vocative | fastīdium | fastīdia |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fastidium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.