bulimia

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting. countable,uncountable
    — Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87.
  2. Excessive hunger. countable,obsolete,uncountable

词形变化

bulimias plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Ancient Greek λῑμός (līmós)
Ancient Greek βούλῑμος (boúlīmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)lbor.
English bulimia
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā, “ravenous hunger”), from βούλῑμος (boúlīmos) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
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