ailment

ailment

English

Etymology

From ail +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪlmənt/

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Noun

ailment (plural ailments)

1. Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

Translations

something which ails one; a disease; sickness

Bulgarian: болест (bg) f (bolest), болка (bg) f (bolka) Dutch: aandoening (nl) f Esperanto: malsano (eo), afekcio Finnish: sairaus (fi), vaiva (fi) French: maladie (fr) f German: Leiden (de) n Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia), αρρώστια (el) f (arróstia), νόσος (el) f (nósos), πάθηση (el) f (páthisi) Irish: breoiteacht f Italian: disturbo (it) m, indisposizione (it) f, affezione (it) f, male (it) m, malattia (it) f, acciacco (it) m, malanno (it) m Kurdish: Sorani: دەرد‎ (ku) (derd)

Latin: morbus (la) Occitan: malautiá (oc) f Portuguese: enfermidade (pt) f Romanian: indispoziție (ro) Russian: боле́знь (ru) f (boléznʹ), неду́г (ru) m (nedúg), нездоро́вье (ru) n (nezdoróvʹje), недомога́ние (ru) n (nedomogánije) Scottish Gaelic: galar m, tinneas m, euslaint f, trioblaid f Spanish: dolencia (es) f, enfermedad (es) f, achaque (es) m, alifafe Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu)

Further reading

• ailment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ailment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• aliment, maltine, netmail