rheumaticの意味・使い方・発音

rheumatic

英 [rʊ'mætɪk] 美 [rʊ'mætɪk]

rheumatic: rheumatic: [14] Greek rheuma meant literally ‘flow, stream’ (it came ultimately from the same Indo-European base as produced English stream, and was a close relative of the Greek verb rhein ‘flow’, which provides the second halves of English catarrh and diarrhoea). It was used for a ‘watery discharge from the body’, and was borrowed into English (via late Latin rheuma and Old French reume) as rheum [14] in the sense ‘mucous discharge from the eyes or nose’.

Pains in the joints were in former times thought to be caused by watery secretions within the body, and so towards the end of the 17th century the term rheumatism was applied to them.
=> catarrh, diarrhoea, rhyme, rhythm
rheumatic (adj.): late 14c., from Old French reumatique (Modern French rhumatique), from Latin rheumaticus "troubled with rheum," from Greek rheumatikos, from rheuma "discharge from the body" (see rheum).

1. Evans had rheumatic fever,missed school and fell behind.: イワンはリウマチ熱になり、授業に行かず、宿題も落ちた。

2.He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.: 彼は急性リウマチ性関節炎を患い、病院に3ヶ月間入院した。

3.She had been up the whole night with rheumatic aches.: 彼女はリューマチの痛みで一晩中眠れなかった。

5.Intern:Did you ever have rheumatic or fever as a child？: インターン：子供の頃、リウマチ熱やスカーレット熱を受けたことがありますか。