disease – English noun declension

English noun forms of disease

Noun: disease
Singulardisease
Pluraldiseases

Sample Sentences

  • The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.
  • The exposed workers had some kind of disease that left their skin splotchy and their faces withered.
  • […] diſeaſes deſperate growne,
  • By deſperate appliance are releeued,
  • Or not at all. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 272, column 2:]
  • The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […] [November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10]
  • Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. [1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, →OL:]
  • Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat. [2012 March 26, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2012, page 87:]
  • Thanks to that connection between cardiovascular and brain health, taking steps to prevent cardiovascular disease or other chronic diseases – such as maintaining a healthy diet and exercise – can benefit the brain too, said Vossel, who was not involved in the new study. [2022 September 14, Jacqueline Howard, “Study finds potential link between daily multivitamin and improved cognition in older adults”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 May 2023:]
  • War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty. [1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7:]
  • [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 422:]
  • To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […] [c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic *dis-
5. Latin dis-
6. Old French des-
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
8. Proto-Italic *ad
9. Proto-Italic *ad-
10. Latin ad-
11. Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-kt
13. Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder.
14. Latin iaciō
15. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
17. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
18. Proto-Italic *-ēō
19. Latin -eō
20. Latin iaceō
21. Latin adiaceō
22. Latin adiacēns?
23. Old French eise
24. Old French desaise
25. Anglo-Norman desesebor.
26. Middle English disese
27. English disease
28. From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath). By surface analysis, dis- + ease. See: Middle English Nouns 'disese', Middle English Nouns 'adle', Middle English Nouns 'cothe', Old English Nouns 'coþu'.