vibex

vibex

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vībex (“the mark of a blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪbɛks/

Noun

vibex (plural vibices)

1. (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.

References

• vibices in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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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

1. (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

1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “vibex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 779