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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌkakəʊˈiːθiːz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cacoethes.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cacoethe [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cacoēthes , from Ancient Greek κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs, “ill-disposed”) from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + ἦθος (êthos, “disposition, nature”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|cacoēthes}} Latin cacoēthes, {{lena}}, {{der|en|grc|κακοήθης||ill-disposed}} Ancient Greek κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs, “ill-disposed”), {{m|grc|κακός||bad}} κακός (kakós, “bad”), {{m|grc|ἦθος||disposition, nature}} ἦθος (êthos, “disposition, nature”) Head templates: {{en-noun|cacoethe}} cacoethes (plural cacoethe)
  1. Compulsion; mania. Translations (compulsion, mania): posedlost (Czech), mánie (Czech), contrainte [feminine] (French), manie [feminine] (French), fiksacja [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-cacoethes-en-noun-Ff~p-xx6 Disambiguation of 'compulsion, mania': 97 3
  2. (medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (disposition in a disease): sklon k churavosti (Czech), tumeur f maligne (French), ulcère [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-cacoethes-en-noun-zh~XovXU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'disposition in a disease': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cacoëthes Derived forms: cacoethic, cacoethical, cacoethically

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ka.koˈeː.tʰes/ [Classical], [käkoˈeːt̪ʰɛs̠] [Classical], /ka.koˈe.tes/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [käkoˈɛːt̪es] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Ancient Greek κακόηθες (kakóēthes), the neuter form of κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs, “ill-disposed”), from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + ἦθος (êthos, “disposition, nature”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|κακόηθες}} Ancient Greek κακόηθες (kakóēthes), {{m|grc|κακοήθης||ill-disposed}} κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs, “ill-disposed”), {{m|grc|κακός||bad}} κακός (kakós, “bad”), {{m|grc|ἦθος||disposition, nature}} ἦθος (êthos, “disposition, nature”) Head templates: {{la-noun|cacoēthes/cacoēth<3.N>}} cacoēthes n (genitive cacoēthis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|cacoēthes/cacoēth<3.N>}} Forms: cacoēthes [canonical, neuter], cacoēthis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], cacoēthes [nominative, singular], cacoētha [nominative, plural], cacoēthis [genitive, singular], cacoēthum [genitive, plural], cacoēthī [dative, singular], cacoēthibus [dative, plural], cacoēthes [accusative, singular], cacoētha [accusative, plural], cacoēthe [ablative, singular], cacoēthibus [ablative, plural], cacoēthes [singular, vocative], cacoētha [plural, vocative]
  1. A malignant tumour or disease. Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-cacoethes-la-noun-A8~a~HAq
  2. Mania, especially for writing. Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-cacoethes-la-noun-OfuGzcAi Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 28 72

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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1530, Galenus with Ioannem Guinterium [Johann Guenther], Clavdii Galeni pergameni, medicorvm principis, De compositione medicamentorvm ΚΑΤᾺ ΓΈΝΗ [kata genē] lib. VII, volume VII, Basel: [Ex officina Andreae Cratandri], →OCLC, page [40]",
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          "text": "Cacoëthe ulcera, ex dyſepulotis clariùs intelliguntur; quæ enim ex humorum confluxu, vel multorŭ, vel acrimum oriuntur, ita, ut locus affectus talem diſpoſitionem, quâ id, quod influit, bonum ſit licèt, tamen ipſum corrumpat, non habeat, Dyſepulota nomino: quæ verò dictam diſpoſitionem jam obtinent, præcipuo vocabulo cacoëthe, i.e. maligna, appello.",
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          "ref": "1814 October 21, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To Mr. Justice Fletcher. Letter III.”, in Sara Coleridge, editor, Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend, volume III, London: William Pickering, published 1850, →OCLC, page 697",
          "text": "Coercere ipsos meum non erit, meum tamen erit ipsos prodere, quod fraudibus et imposturis toti scateant, et aliud fundamentum nullum, quam a cacoëthe plausus vulgaris et ignorantia enatum, teneant.",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1731, Jean de Launoy, Joannis Launoii … Opera omnia : ad selectum ordinem revocata : ineditis opusculis aliquot, notis nonnullis dogmaticis, historicis et criticis : auctoris vita : variis monumentis tum ad Launonium tum ad scripta ipsius pertinentibus, praefationibus cuique volumini affixis, indicibus locupletissimis : aucta et illustrata …, volume II, part 2, Coloniae Allobrogum: Fabri & Barrillot, Sociorum; Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, →OCLC, page 689",
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          "ref": "1791, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, translated by Martin Madan, A New and Literal Translation of the I, III, IV, VII, VIII, X, XIII, & XIV Satires of Juvenal, with Copious Explanatory Notes; by which this Difficult Satirist is Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Dublin: Printed by W. McKenzie, No. 33, College-Green, →OCLC, page 168",
          "text": "Nam ſi diſcedas, laqueo tenet ambitioſi / Conſuetudo mali: tenet inſanabile multos / Scribendi cacoëthes, & ægro in corde ſeneſcit.",
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          "text": "The Speculator responded to the letter with a blend of commiseration and alarm: \"this young gentleman's situation is truly pitiable. The cacoethes scribendi is certainly one of the most troublesome diseases of the mind; and when it thus totally possesses a man, I scarce know any madness equal to it\" (51:20). The cacoethes scribendi, which as An Impartial and Candid Disquisition into the Case of Sporus, by A Lover of Truth and Impartiality (1755) explained, \"is a hard Word for a Disease called in plain English, the Itch of Writing,\" was a staple of literary satire (24).",
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          "ref": "1661, Daniel Sennert, translated by Nicholas Culpeper and Abdiah Cole, The Art of Chirurgery, Explained in Six Parts … Being the Whol Fifth Book of Practical Physick. By D. Sennert', Doctor of Physick. And R.W. Nicholas Culpeper, Physitian and Astrologer. Abdiah Cole, Doctor of Physick, and the Liberal Arts, London: Printed by Peter Cole and Edward Cole, Printers and Book-sellers, at the Sign of the Printing-press in Cornhill, neer the Royal Exchange, →OCLC, page 2572",
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          "text": "As all Ulcers complicated with great Diseases are of difficult Cure, and therefore called Cacoethe: so these Ulcers labouring under Intemperies though they be well handled, are hard of Cure, and may be truly reckoned among the Cacoethe, malign and rebellious Ulcers.",
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          "text": "If the tumour be compressed in some, the parts in immediate contact become tense and swollen. For this reason it is the worst kind of disease. It generally commences by what the Greeks call Cacoethes, or malignant tumour, then proceeds to Carcinoma, or scirrhus, without ulceration: afterwards to ulcer: then to a thymium. None of these can be removed except the Cacoethes: the rest are aggravated by every method of treatment; and the more energetic the remedies, the more irritable they become. […] [N]o one can distinguish a cacoethes, which is curable, from a carcinoma, which is incurable, except by time and experiment.",
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      "sense": "compulsion, mania",
      "word": "posedlost"
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      "word": "mánie"
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        "Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1530, Galenus with Ioannem Guinterium [Johann Guenther], Clavdii Galeni pergameni, medicorvm principis, De compositione medicamentorvm ΚΑΤᾺ ΓΈΝΗ [kata genē] lib. VII, volume VII, Basel: [Ex officina Andreae Cratandri], →OCLC, page [40]",
          "text": "His igitur auditis quiſpiam, & ſimplicium medicamentorũ uiribus intellectis, diſcernere роterit, quæ maiores noſtri ad ulcera cacoëthe pharmaca cõſcripſerint:ſicut mox Aſclepiades, cognomento Pharmacion, in tertio τῶμἐχτὸς in hunc modum tradidit.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1628, Bartolommeo Castelli with Emmanuel Stupanus, Lexicon medicvm græco-latinum, compendiosiss[imum] à Bartholomæo Castello Messanense inchoatum, nunc vero mystarum Apollineorum in commodum publicum, Basel: Impensis Joh. Jacobi Genathi [Johan Jakob Genath], →OCLC, page 48",
          "text": "Cacoëthe ulcera, ex dyſepulotis clariùs intelliguntur; quæ enim ex humorum confluxu, vel multorŭ, vel acrimum oriuntur, ita, ut locus affectus talem diſpoſitionem, quâ id, quod influit, bonum ſit licèt, tamen ipſum corrumpat, non habeat, Dyſepulota nomino: quæ verò dictam diſpoſitionem jam obtinent, præcipuo vocabulo cacoëthe, i.e. maligna, appello.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1814 October 21, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To Mr. Justice Fletcher. Letter III.”, in Sara Coleridge, editor, Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend, volume III, London: William Pickering, published 1850, →OCLC, page 697",
          "text": "Coercere ipsos meum non erit, meum tamen erit ipsos prodere, quod fraudibus et imposturis toti scateant, et aliud fundamentum nullum, quam a cacoëthe plausus vulgaris et ignorantia enatum, teneant.",
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          "text": "Tolli nihil, nisi cacoethes potest: reliqua curationibus irritantur; et quo major vis adhibita est, eo magis.",
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        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1731, Jean de Launoy, Joannis Launoii … Opera omnia : ad selectum ordinem revocata : ineditis opusculis aliquot, notis nonnullis dogmaticis, historicis et criticis : auctoris vita : variis monumentis tum ad Launonium tum ad scripta ipsius pertinentibus, praefationibus cuique volumini affixis, indicibus locupletissimis : aucta et illustrata …, volume II, part 2, Coloniae Allobrogum: Fabri & Barrillot, Sociorum; Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, →OCLC, page 689",
          "text": "Nam de me ita ſcribit: Quem ſatis notum paſſim Gallia tota inſanabile contradicendi cacoëthes fecit. Et primò quidem circa jejunii materiam, quæ eſt рræ manibus, quibus in Diſſertationis noſtræ locis inſanabile contradicendi cacoëthes apparet?",
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        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1791, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, translated by Martin Madan, A New and Literal Translation of the I, III, IV, VII, VIII, X, XIII, & XIV Satires of Juvenal, with Copious Explanatory Notes; by which this Difficult Satirist is Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Dublin: Printed by W. McKenzie, No. 33, College-Green, →OCLC, page 168",
          "text": "Nam ſi diſcedas, laqueo tenet ambitioſi / Conſuetudo mali: tenet inſanabile multos / Scribendi cacoëthes, & ægro in corde ſeneſcit.",
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      "ipa": "/ka.koˈe.tes/",
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    {
      "ipa": "[käkoˈɛːt̪es]",
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}

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