tabes

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tābēs. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈteɪbiːz/ Rhymes: -eɪbiz Rhymes: -eɪbiːz === Noun === tabes (countable and uncountable, plural tabes) (medicine) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. (more specifically) Tabes dorsalis. ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === beast, Beats, baste, Sebat, besat, beats, abets, Bates, esbat, Beast, BEAST, betas, bates == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”). Cognates include Sanskrit तोय (toya, “water”), Ancient Greek τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”), τῖφος (tîphos, “pond, swamp”), Russian та́ять (tájatʹ, “to melt, to thaw”), Old English þawian and English thaw. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtaː.beːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtaː.bes] === Noun === tābēs f (genitive tābis); third declension the act of wasting away (due to a disease or by other means: especially of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord subserving positional sense in the legs in untreated syphilis) decay, putrefaction foulness, stench (figurative) moral corruption fluid from a wound a fluid that results from melting or dissolving ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: tabes → Italian: tabe → Portuguese: tabe, tabes === References === “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. == Volapük == === Noun === tabes dative plural of tab