diabetes Latin · revision 9312

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Columella|origins=grc διαβήτης}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [di.aˈbeː.teːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [di.aˈbɛː.tes]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''diabētēs''' ''m'' (genitive diabētae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|διαβήτης|tr=diabḗtēs|t=siphon; diabetes]], literally “a passer-through”, from ⟨diabaínein⟩ “to pass through”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short and Gaffiot cite Columella, of a siphon, also called ''sīphō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Columella it meant a siphon.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) The physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2nd century) named the disease of excessive urination ''diabḗtēs'' in Greek.^(Etymonline)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it as a medical term, diabetes.^(DMLBS) Medical Latin ''diabētēs'' gave [[en|diabetes]] in the 1560s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a siphon.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1560s – English ''diabetes'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|siphon]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(medicine)'' [[m|en|diabetes|alt=Diabetes]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sīphō]]

+ * [[en|diabetes]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}