Noun: abscess
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | abscessen |
| Pl. | abscessene |
Sample Sentences
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en fæl absces (a nasty abscess) [1845, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter III,1, page 193:]
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jeg saumfarte foten hans enda en gang og nå fant jeg en abscess ved hælen, hard som en kastanje (I scoured his foot once more and now I found an abscess at the heel, hard as a chestnut) [2010, Lars Saabye Christensen, Bernhard Hvals forsnakkelser:]
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jeg har tømt absesser som har sprutet ned … tak og vegger (I have emptied abscesses that have splashed down… ceilings and walls) [2010, Nina Lykke, Full spredning, page 13:]
Nouns inflected like abscess
tjuendedag,
billettautomat,
bestevenn,
synops,
syklon,
syklus,
abiturient,
forsnevring,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
lekeplass,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
sefard,
seilas,
sektor,
sement,
sensor,
sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abscessus (“departed, withdrawn, retreated”), perfect passive participle of abscēdō (“to go away, depart”), from both ab- (“away from, off, from”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from cēdō (“to go”), from Proto-Italic *kezdō, from either *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”), or from *ḱye, from *ḱe (deictic particle) and *sed- (“to sit”). See: Latin Nouns '
abscessus'.
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