Latin

Alternative forms

• pthisicus, tisicus

Adjective

phthisicus m ‎(feminine phthisica, neuter phthisicum); first/second declension

1. consumptive, phthisical (suffering from consumption or phthisis)

Declension

First/second declension.

Descendants

• Catalan: tísic
• English: phthisical
• Italian: tisico
• Old French: tisique
  • Middle French: tisique, thisique, tesicque, ptisique
  • ?Old Provençal: tezic, tesic
• Portuguese: tísico
• Spanish: tísico

Noun

phthisicus m ‎(genitive phthisicī); second declension

1. a consumptive, a phthisic or phthisical (one suffering from consumption or phthisis)

Declension

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (a consumptive, phthisic, phthisical): phthuicus

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: tysike, tisik, tysic
  • Middle English: tisike
• Catalan: tísic
• ?Italian: tisico
• ?Middle Dutch: tisike
• Middle French: ptisique
• Old French: tisique, thisique
• Portuguese: tísico
• Spanish: tísico

Related terms

• phthisis

References

• phthĭsĭcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “phthĭsĭcus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,177/3.
• “p(h)thisicus” on page 1,376/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)