asthmatic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /æsˈθmætɪk/|/æsˈmætɪk/    美 /æzˈmætɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who suffers from asthma.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
    — The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

词形变化

more asthmatic comparative most asthmatic superlative asthmatical alternative,dated asthmatick alternative,obsolete asthmatics plural asthmatical alternative,dated asthmatick alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
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