vibex
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vībex (“the mark of a blow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaɪbɛks/
Noun
vibex (plural vibices)
- (medicine) An extensive patch of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
- 1865, S[amuel] O[sborne] Habershon, “Clinical Remarks on Diseases of the Skin”, in Samuel Wilks, editor, Guy's Hospital Reports (Third Series), volume XI, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street, OCLC 624382219, page 233:
- During the last winter, the child was again brought to me, but in a dying state, and the mother could not be persuaded to allow it to come into the hospital: it was as well-grown as children of its age, very anæmic, but with several purpurous spots, or rather vibices, upon the body; […] The poor mother afterwards came in great distress, because a medical practitioner, who had been called in to see the child, not recognising the nature of the malady, said there must be a coroner's inquest; the purpurous vibices upon the body being mistaken for the bruises of ill treatment.
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References
- vibices in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin
Alternative forms
- vībix
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *weyb-, *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”)[1]. Compare Latin vibrō (“I shake, brandish”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.beks/, [ˈu̯iːbɛks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.beks/, [ˈviːbeks]
Noun
vībex f (genitive vībīcis); third declension
- (pathology) wound left by a lash, weal or welt
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vībex vībix | vībīcēs |
Genitive | vībīcis | vībīcum |
Dative | vībīcī | vībīcibus |
Accusative | vībīcem | vībīcēs |
Ablative | vībīce | vībīcibus |
Vocative | vībex | vībīcēs |
References
- “vibex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “vibex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 779