Dictionary

tabid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtæbid/

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.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to tabes.
   • The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…] 1897, F[rancis] de Havilland Hall, “Lettsomian Lectures: Diseases of the Nose and Throat in Relation to General Medicine”, in Transactions of the Medical Society of London, page 198:
2. Wasting away, declining.
   • 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. 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 44:

Forms

Deriveds

tabidly · tabidness