ptisicle (s.xiii2/4)

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ptisicle (s.xiii2/4)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: *8,404a phthisicus; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF:  ptisique (*); DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  phthisical a. and n.; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
 

The unetymological -cle ending is difficult to explain. While a relation with English adjective phthisical seems possible, that form (explained by the OED as an English derivation, either though phthisic with the -al suffix or through phthisis followed by the -ical suffix) only appears from the early seventeenth century.

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1pathol.med.phthisis, disease of the lungs
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  ptisicle qui degaste la substantele humidité del cors  i 204.83
2pathol.med.consumptive person, one suffering from phthisis or tuberculosis
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Oncore notez que mult sont deceus de conustre home ptisique, kar li uns dient de empicis qui il sont ptisicles come il ne sont pas, a la quele chose prover mon pere fist .i. esperiment  i 205
ptisic  tisicle  tisik 
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