asthmatic
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus. By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
asthmatic
adjUK /æsˈθmætɪk/ · US /æzˈmætɪk/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus. By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
- asthmatic cough
- The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
- Derived terms
- antasthmatic, antiasthmatic, asthmatically, asthmatic attack, nonasthmatic, postasthmatic, preasthmatic, proasthmatic