tabid
/ˈtæbid/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to tabes.
adj
name
A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
Example Sentences
- "The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]"
- "he certainly muſt have gone upon ſome of the old Roman ſouls, of which he had read, without reflecting how much, by a gradual and moſt tabid decline, in a courſe of eighteen hundred years, they muſt unavoidably have ſhrunk, ſo as to have come, when he wrote, almoſt to nothing."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teh₂-der. Latin tābeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tābidus English tabid From tabes + -id, from Latin tābidus (“melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, rotting”), from tābeō + -idus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more tabid (comparative)
most tabid (superlative)