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imposthume

Meaningabscess

Common meaning: abscess, in archaic medical use

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√STA‘stand, whence various extended forms’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 418, p. 745 · scan
  2. Greekapostēma‘abscess’source
  3. Old Frenchapostume‘abscess’source
  4. Englishimposthume‘abscess, in archaic medical use’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Greek apostēma ‘abscess’.

Roots

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