Noun: dropsy
| Singular | dropsy |
| Plural | dropsies |
Sample Sentences
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Caliban: The dropſie drowne this foole,[…] [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
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Your sacred Majesty, he has the dropsy;—
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We shall find pints of hydatids in’s liver,
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He has not half an inch of wholesome fat
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Upon his carious ribs— [1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:]
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The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy. [1911, "Joseph Addison", Encyclopædia Britannica]
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Like someone moving back in space until the earth appears as a tiny mote of light, he managed to distance himself from the immediate discomfort of pipes with dropsy, defiant plumbing tools, and the overly familiar fiberglass, by musing aloud on the evolutionary history of humans that allowed the two of us to communicate verbally, creating a word picture of the problem and how to fix it. [2020, Pat Goodmann, Wolf Park Blog: Happy 90th Birthday Dr. Klinghammer:]
Nouns inflected like dropsy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wed-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
5. Proto-Hellenic *údōr
6. Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
7. Ancient Greek ῠ̔́δρωψ (hŭ́drōps)bor.
8. Latin hydrōps
9. Late Latin hydropisiader.
10. Old French ydropisiebor.
11. Middle English idropesie
12. English dropsy
13. From Middle English dropesie, idropesie, from Old French idropsie, ydropisie, from Latin hydrōps, from Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (húdrōps), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”). Doublet of hydropsy and hydrops. See: Middle English Nouns '
dropesie', Latin Nouns '
hydrōps', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὕδρωψ'.
Verbs referencing "dropsy"
Spanish Nouns
hidropesía, Old Spanish Nouns
ydropisia.