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asthmatic

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Ancient Greek ἆσθμα (âsthma)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Hellenic *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Koine Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós)bor.
Latin asthmaticuslbor.
English asthmatic

    Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus. By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.

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    asthmatic (comparative more asthmatic, superlative most asthmatic)

    1. (pathology) Having the characteristics of asthma.
      asthmatic cough
      • 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories‎[1], Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
        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.

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    Noun

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    asthmatic (plural asthmatics)

    1. (pathology) One who suffers from asthma.

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