tabes

Latin tābes

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪbiːz/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiz

tabes (countable and uncountable, plural tabes)

1. (medicine) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
   1. (more specifically) Tabes dorsalis.

• Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”). Cognates include Sanskrit तोय (toya, “water”), Ancient Greek τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”), τῖφος (tîphos, “pond, swamp”), Old English þawian and English thaw.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.bes/, [ˈtaː.bɛs]

tābes f (genitive tābis); third declension

1. melting, dwindling, consumption, corruption, putrefaction
2. wasting disease, infection

   • 86 BCE – c. 35 BCE, Sallust, The Jugurthine War Ch. 32:

     tanta vis auaritiae in animos eorum ueluti tabes invaserat

     a zeal for covetousness the like of an infection arose in them

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

• tābeō

• Portuguese: tabe, tabes

• tabes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tabes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tabes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

tabes

1. dative plural of tab