ydropisia
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin hydropisia, from Latin hydropisis, from Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (húdrōps, “edema”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”). Compare with English dropsy. The word may have been borrowed through Old French ydropisie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [i.ðɾo.piˈsi.a]
Noun
ydropisia f (usually uncountable)
- dropsy; edema
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 118v.
- Et dixieron los ſabios en el libro de las piedras que la uerde atal uirtut. que quien la engaſtonare en ſortija. la traxiere conſigo. nõ aura la enfermedat a que dizen ydropiſia.
- And in the Book of Stones the wise men claimed that the green stone possesses such virtue that he who mounts it on a ring and has it with him will not suffer from the illness they call dropsy.
- Et dixieron los ſabios en el libro de las piedras que la uerde atal uirtut. que quien la engaſtonare en ſortija. la traxiere conſigo. nõ aura la enfermedat a que dizen ydropiſia.
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 118v.
Descendants
- Spanish: hidropesía
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