fastidium

English

Etymology

From Latin fastīdium (loathing, disgust).

Noun

fastidium (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, archaic) repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat

Latin

Etymology

By haplology perhaps from *fastutidium, from fastus (disdain) + taedium (weariness).[1]

Noun

fastīdium n (genitive fastīdiī); second declension

  1. loathing, disgust
  2. squeamishness
  3. fastidiousness

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

  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 110
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