haemorrhagia Latin · revision 4511

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Pliny the Elder|origins=grc αἷμα, grc ῥήγνυμι}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [hae̯.mɔrˈrʰa.ɡi.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [e.morˈraː.d͡ʒi.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''haemorrhagia''' ''f'' (genitive haemorrhagiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|αἱμορραγία|tr=haimorrhagía|t=violent bleeding]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874) from [[m|grc|αἱμορραγής|tr=haimorrhagḗs|t=bleeding violently]], from [[m|grc|αἷμα|tr=haîma|t=blood]] and [[m|grc|ῥήγνυμι|tr=rhḗgnumi|t=to break, burst]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, uses it of bleeding, especially from the nose.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates him 23/24–79 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a violent bleeding, a haemorrhage, and in Pliny especially a nosebleed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) It also appears in the Tironian notes.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin it was a flow of blood, often in medical writers, with many spellings such as ''emorosagia''.^(MLW)^(DMLBS) [[en|hemorrhage]] is recorded around 1400 as ''emorosogie''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of nosebleeds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English ''emorosogie'', later ''hemorrhage'', is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(medicine)'' A violent bleeding, a [[m|en|haemorrhage]]; a nosebleed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|hemorrhage]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}