fastidium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin fastīdium (“loathing, disgust”). === Noun === fastidium (uncountable) (medicine, archaic) repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain, perhaps by haplology from *fāstutīdium, from fāstus (“disdain”) + taedium (“weariness”). === Noun === fastīdium n (genitive fastīdiī or fastīdī); second declension loathing, disgust, disdain squeamishness fastidiousness ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== fastīdiō fastīdiōsus ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: fastig, fàstic Galician: fastío → Italian: fastidio Portuguese: fastio Spanish: hastío; → fastidio ==== 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “fastidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.