See rachitic on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "antirachitic"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "postrachitic"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "rachitic pelvis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "rachitic rosary"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "scrofulo-rachitic"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "English",
"name": "langname"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "rickets"
},
"expansion": "sense 1",
"name": "senseno"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "suffix",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "adjective",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun"
},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "rachitis",
"3": "-ic",
"pos2": "suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’",
"t1": "rickets"
},
"expansion": "rachitis (“rickets”) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’)",
"name": "affix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "rachitique"
},
"expansion": "French rachitique",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "LL.",
"2": "rachiticus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin rachiticus",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "NL.",
"3": "rachitis",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "unadapted borrowing from New Latin rachitis",
"name": "ubor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "operâ primò ac potissimm Francisci Glissonii Doctoris & publici professoris medicinæ in almâ Cantabrigiæ academiâ, & socii collegii medicorum Londinensium, conscriiptus: adscitis in operis societatem Georgio Bate, & Ahasuero Regemortero medicinæ quoque doctoribus, & pariter sociis collegii medicorum Londinensium"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "for the First Time and Most Powerfully by Francis Glisson Doctor & Public Professor of Medicine in the University of Cambridge, & a Member of the College of Physicians of London: Approved in Affiliated Works by George Bate, & Assuerus Regimorter also Doctors of Medicine, & Fellow Members of the College of Physicians of London"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "[…]"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "noitalic"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "apud quos veneunt in vico vulgò-vocato Little Britain"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "and to be sold in the neighbourhood commonly known as Little Britain"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc-koi",
"3": "ῥαχῖτις"
},
"expansion": "Koine Greek ῥαχῖτις (rhakhîtis)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "feminine"
},
"expansion": "feminine",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ῥάχῐς",
"t": "lower part of the back; (anatomy) backbone, spine"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ῥάχῐς (rhákhĭs, “lower part of the back; (anatomy) backbone, spine”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "qsb-grc"
},
"expansion": "Pre-Greek",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From rachitis (“rickets”) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), possibly modelled after French rachitique or Late Latin rachiticus. Rachitis is an unadapted borrowing from New Latin rachitis, used by the British physician Francis Glisson (1597–1677) to refer to rickets, from Koine Greek ῥαχῖτις (rhakhîtis) (in ῥαχῖτις νόσος (rhakhîtis nósos, “spinal inflammation”, literally “spinal disease”)), the feminine form of ῥαχίτης (rhakhítēs, “in or of the spine, spinal”), from Ancient Greek ῥάχῐς (rhákhĭs, “lower part of the back; (anatomy) backbone, spine”) (probably ultimately Pre-Greek) + -ῖτις (-îtis) (feminine form of -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming nouns with the sense ‘one connected to’)).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more rachitic",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most rachitic",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "rachitic (comparative more rachitic, superlative most rachitic)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"rach‧it‧ic"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Diseases",
"orig": "en:Diseases",
"parents": [
"Disease",
"Health",
"Body",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ic",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "88 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "76 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "90 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "83 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "83 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "84 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "88 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "88 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "81 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "(affected by rickets):"
},
{
"ref": "1982, Lawrence Durrell, “Constance, or Solitary Practices”, in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber & Faber, published 2004, →ISBN, page 761:",
"text": "Nor was there time to do much more than distribute some sweet to the pallid rachitic children.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Umberto Eco, chapter 113, in William Weaver, transl., Foucault’s Pendulum (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book), San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 582:",
"text": "His companions—now I could see them as well. […] Tiny, nocturnal, twittering, they were like rachitic children, and as one went past me I saw mongoloid features and a bald head.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 2, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale […], New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 80:",
"text": "They [the author's grandparents] brought Margot, who was a little more than a year old, back to Cataca with them, […] It was hard for me to get used to the change, because Margot came to the house like a creature from another life, rachitic and wild, and with an impenetrable interior world. When Abigaíl—the mother of Luis Carmelo Correa—saw her she could not understand why my grandparents had assumed the burden of that commitment. \"The girl is dying,\" she said.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets (“a disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones”)."
],
"id": "en-rachitic-en-adj-en:rickets",
"links": [
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
],
[
"affected",
"affect#Verb"
],
[
"rickets",
"rickets#English"
],
[
"disorder",
"disorder#Noun"
],
[
"infancy",
"infancy"
],
[
"early",
"early#Adjective"
],
[
"childhood",
"childhood"
],
[
"deficiency",
"deficiency"
],
[
"vitamin D",
"vitamin D"
],
[
"causing",
"cause#Verb"
],
[
"soft",
"soft#Adjective"
],
[
"weak",
"weak#Adjective"
],
[
"bones",
"bone#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(pathology) Of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets (“a disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones”)."
],
"senseid": [
"en:rickets"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "rickety"
}
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"pathology",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rahitičen",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "рахитичен"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "raquític"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitický"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "riisitautinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitique"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitisch"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "kṣīṇ",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "क्षीण"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "angolkóros"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitico"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "rahitičen",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "рахитичен"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "raquítico"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "raquítico"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 13",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rakitisk"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1864, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “I Do Not Become ‘Fast Friends’ with Lagos”, in A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 25:",
"text": "On Dec. 2, we found ourselves rolling in the roads of pestilential Lagos, our lullaby the sullen distant roar, whilst a dusky white gleam smoking over the deadly bar in the darkening horizon threatened us with a disagreeable landing at the last, the youngest, and the most rachitic of Great Britain's large but now exceedingly neglected family of colonies.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1923 November, Aldous Huxley, chapter II, in Antic Hay, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 17:",
"text": "Gumbril Senior occupied a tall, narrow-shouldered and rachitic house in a little obscure square not far from Paddington. […] It was a prematurely old and decaying house in a decaying quarter.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1947 December 8, “Foreign Exchange: Bold Gamble”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-19:",
"text": "More important, if the daring financial gamble is won, it may encourage other European nations with overvalued, rachitic currencies, notably France and Greece, to push through their own tough financial programs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1981 August, John Crowley, “The Fairies’ Parliament”, in Little, Big, rack-size edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published October 1983, →ISBN, page 576:",
"text": "Even as he thought this he saw, leaping from the last stair of a rachitic escalator, down there, a blond girl in a blue dress, bright in the brown darkness.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a precarious or weak condition; likely to break down or collapse; feeble, rickety."
],
"id": "en-rachitic-en-adj-pLHLXon3",
"links": [
[
"precarious",
"precarious"
],
[
"weak",
"weak"
],
[
"condition",
"condition#Noun"
],
[
"likely",
"likely"
],
[
"break down",
"break down#Verb"
],
[
"collapse",
"collapse#Verb"
],
[
"feeble",
"feeble#Adjective"
],
[
"rickety",
"rickety"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) In a precarious or weak condition; likely to break down or collapse; feeble, rickety."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɹəˈkɪtɪk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹæ-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹəˈkɪtɪk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-ɾɪk]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtɪk"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Francis Glisson",
"William Dugard"
],
"word": "rachitic"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms borrowed from New Latin",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Koine Greek",
"English terms derived from New Latin",
"English terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate",
"English terms suffixed with -ic",
"English unadapted borrowings from New Latin",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ɪtɪk/3 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "antirachitic"
},
{
"word": "postrachitic"
},
{
"word": "rachitic pelvis"
},
{
"word": "rachitic rosary"
},
{
"word": "scrofulo-rachitic"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "English",
"name": "langname"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "rickets"
},
"expansion": "sense 1",
"name": "senseno"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "suffix",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "adjective",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun"
},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "rachitis",
"3": "-ic",
"pos2": "suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’",
"t1": "rickets"
},
"expansion": "rachitis (“rickets”) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’)",
"name": "affix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "rachitique"
},
"expansion": "French rachitique",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "LL.",
"2": "rachiticus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin rachiticus",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "NL.",
"3": "rachitis",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "unadapted borrowing from New Latin rachitis",
"name": "ubor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "operâ primò ac potissimm Francisci Glissonii Doctoris & publici professoris medicinæ in almâ Cantabrigiæ academiâ, & socii collegii medicorum Londinensium, conscriiptus: adscitis in operis societatem Georgio Bate, & Ahasuero Regemortero medicinæ quoque doctoribus, & pariter sociis collegii medicorum Londinensium"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "for the First Time and Most Powerfully by Francis Glisson Doctor & Public Professor of Medicine in the University of Cambridge, & a Member of the College of Physicians of London: Approved in Affiliated Works by George Bate, & Assuerus Regimorter also Doctors of Medicine, & Fellow Members of the College of Physicians of London"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "[…]"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "noitalic"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "apud quos veneunt in vico vulgò-vocato Little Britain"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "and to be sold in the neighbourhood commonly known as Little Britain"
},
"expansion": "[…]",
"name": "nb..."
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc-koi",
"3": "ῥαχῖτις"
},
"expansion": "Koine Greek ῥαχῖτις (rhakhîtis)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "feminine"
},
"expansion": "feminine",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ῥάχῐς",
"t": "lower part of the back; (anatomy) backbone, spine"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ῥάχῐς (rhákhĭs, “lower part of the back; (anatomy) backbone, spine”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "qsb-grc"
},
"expansion": "Pre-Greek",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From rachitis (“rickets”) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), possibly modelled after French rachitique or Late Latin rachiticus. Rachitis is an unadapted borrowing from New Latin rachitis, used by the British physician Francis Glisson (1597–1677) to refer to rickets, from Koine Greek ῥαχῖτις (rhakhîtis) (in ῥαχῖτις νόσος (rhakhîtis nósos, “spinal inflammation”, literally “spinal disease”)), the feminine form of ῥαχίτης (rhakhítēs, “in or of the spine, spinal”), from Ancient Greek ῥάχῐς (rhákhĭs, “lower part of the back; (anatomy) backbone, spine”) (probably ultimately Pre-Greek) + -ῖτις (-îtis) (feminine form of -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming nouns with the sense ‘one connected to’)).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more rachitic",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most rachitic",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "rachitic (comparative more rachitic, superlative most rachitic)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"rach‧it‧ic"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Diseases"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "(affected by rickets):"
},
{
"ref": "1982, Lawrence Durrell, “Constance, or Solitary Practices”, in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber & Faber, published 2004, →ISBN, page 761:",
"text": "Nor was there time to do much more than distribute some sweet to the pallid rachitic children.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Umberto Eco, chapter 113, in William Weaver, transl., Foucault’s Pendulum (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book), San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 582:",
"text": "His companions—now I could see them as well. […] Tiny, nocturnal, twittering, they were like rachitic children, and as one went past me I saw mongoloid features and a bald head.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 2, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale […], New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 80:",
"text": "They [the author's grandparents] brought Margot, who was a little more than a year old, back to Cataca with them, […] It was hard for me to get used to the change, because Margot came to the house like a creature from another life, rachitic and wild, and with an impenetrable interior world. When Abigaíl—the mother of Luis Carmelo Correa—saw her she could not understand why my grandparents had assumed the burden of that commitment. \"The girl is dying,\" she said.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets (“a disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones”)."
],
"links": [
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
],
[
"affected",
"affect#Verb"
],
[
"rickets",
"rickets#English"
],
[
"disorder",
"disorder#Noun"
],
[
"infancy",
"infancy"
],
[
"early",
"early#Adjective"
],
[
"childhood",
"childhood"
],
[
"deficiency",
"deficiency"
],
[
"vitamin D",
"vitamin D"
],
[
"causing",
"cause#Verb"
],
[
"soft",
"soft#Adjective"
],
[
"weak",
"weak#Adjective"
],
[
"bones",
"bone#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(pathology) Of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets (“a disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones”)."
],
"senseid": [
"en:rickets"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "rickety"
}
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"pathology",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1864, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “I Do Not Become ‘Fast Friends’ with Lagos”, in A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 25:",
"text": "On Dec. 2, we found ourselves rolling in the roads of pestilential Lagos, our lullaby the sullen distant roar, whilst a dusky white gleam smoking over the deadly bar in the darkening horizon threatened us with a disagreeable landing at the last, the youngest, and the most rachitic of Great Britain's large but now exceedingly neglected family of colonies.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1923 November, Aldous Huxley, chapter II, in Antic Hay, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 17:",
"text": "Gumbril Senior occupied a tall, narrow-shouldered and rachitic house in a little obscure square not far from Paddington. […] It was a prematurely old and decaying house in a decaying quarter.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1947 December 8, “Foreign Exchange: Bold Gamble”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-19:",
"text": "More important, if the daring financial gamble is won, it may encourage other European nations with overvalued, rachitic currencies, notably France and Greece, to push through their own tough financial programs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1981 August, John Crowley, “The Fairies’ Parliament”, in Little, Big, rack-size edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published October 1983, →ISBN, page 576:",
"text": "Even as he thought this he saw, leaping from the last stair of a rachitic escalator, down there, a blond girl in a blue dress, bright in the brown darkness.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a precarious or weak condition; likely to break down or collapse; feeble, rickety."
],
"links": [
[
"precarious",
"precarious"
],
[
"weak",
"weak"
],
[
"condition",
"condition#Noun"
],
[
"likely",
"likely"
],
[
"break down",
"break down#Verb"
],
[
"collapse",
"collapse#Verb"
],
[
"feeble",
"feeble#Adjective"
],
[
"rickety",
"rickety"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) In a precarious or weak condition; likely to break down or collapse; feeble, rickety."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɹəˈkɪtɪk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹæ-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-rachitic.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɹəˈkɪtɪk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-ɾɪk]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtɪk"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rahitičen",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "рахитичен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "raquític"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitický"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "riisitautinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitique"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitisch"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "kṣīṇ",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "क्षीण"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "angolkóros"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rachitico"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "rahitičen",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "рахитичен"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "raquítico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "raquítico"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets",
"word": "rakitisk"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Francis Glisson",
"William Dugard"
],
"word": "rachitic"
}
Download raw JSONL data for rachitic meaning in All languages combined (11.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.