hystericus
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the womb, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”) from the Greek belief that hysteria was caused by a disturbance in the uterus and that it belonged exclusively to women. Confer the English hystero- (“of or pertaining to the uterus or womb”), the Latin suffix -icus and the French hystérie.
Adjective
hystericus (feminine hysterica, neuter hystericum); first/second-declension adjective
- hysterical
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | hystericus | hysterica | hystericum | hystericī | hystericae | hysterica | |
| Genitive | hystericī | hystericae | hystericī | hystericōrum | hystericārum | hystericōrum | |
| Dative | hystericō | hystericō | hystericīs | ||||
| Accusative | hystericum | hystericam | hystericum | hystericōs | hystericās | hysterica | |
| Ablative | hystericō | hystericā | hystericō | hystericīs | |||
| Vocative | hysterice | hysterica | hystericum | hystericī | hystericae | hysterica | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: histèric (learned)
- → English: hysteric, hysteria, hysterical
- → Spanish: histérico (learned)
References
- “hystericus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hystericus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hystericus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette