nausea Latin · revision 700

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈnau̯.se.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈnaːu̯.se.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nausea''' ''f'' (genitive nauseae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ναυσίη|tr=nausíē|t=seasickness]], the Ionic form of a word meaning literally “ship-sickness”, from [[m|grc|ναῦς|tr=naûs|t=ship]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary) The TLL explains the Latin ''e'' for Greek ''i'' as a vulgar pronunciation, later corrected to [[m|la|nausia]] after the Greek.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus onwards,^(Köbler 2010) in whom a character who feels unwell is told it must be [[m|en|seasickness]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense was seasickness, as when Cicero writes that he sailed “without fear and without seasickness”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It extended to any feeling of sickness or vomiting, a term in Cato, Celsus and Pliny the Elder, and figuratively to disgust or loathing, as in Seneca and Martial.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ It is the source of French ''nausée'', and of Old French ''noise'' “din, quarrel”, according to Köbler and Wiktionary.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) English borrowed ''nausea'' in the early 15th century, never limited to seasickness.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for seasickness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it for a feeling of sickness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero sails without seasickness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it for weariness and disgust.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English borrows it as [[en|nausea]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|seasickness|alt=Seasickness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|nausea|alt=Nausea]], sickness; vomiting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Disgust, loathing.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nauseō]]

+ * [[nauseola]]

+ * [[nauseōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nāvis]]

+ * [[en|nausea]]

+ * [[en|noise]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}