dropsy
/ˈdɹɑp.si/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.98 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Caliban: The dropſie drowne this foole,[…]"
- "Your sacred Majesty, he has the dropsy;— We shall find pints of hydatids in’s liver, He has not half an inch of wholesome fat Upon his carious ribs—"
- "The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy."
- "Like someone moving back in space until the earth appears as a tiny mote of light, he managed to distance himself from the immediate discomfort of pipes with dropsy, defiant plumbing tools, and the overly familiar fiberglass, by musing aloud on the evolutionary history of humans that allowed the two of us to communicate verbally, creating a word picture of the problem and how to fix it."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔́δρωψ (hŭ́drōps)bor. Latin hydrōps Late Latin hydropisiader. Old French ydropisiebor. Middle English idropesie English dropsy From Middle English dropesie, idropesie, from Old French idropsie, ydropisie, from Latin hydrōps, from Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (húdrōps), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”). Doublet of hydropsy and hydrops.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dropesie, idropsie, hydrōps, ὕδρωψ
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɹɑp.si/
- British English: /ˈdrɒp.si/