peripneumonia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

pĕrĭpneumŏnĭa, ae, f., = περιπνευμονία,

I pulmonary consumption , peripneumonia , Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 25, 140; 2, 26, 142; 2, 27, 143; id. Tard. 3, 1, 4.

II —Hence, pĕrĭ-pneumŏnĭcus (in a later corrupt form, pĕrĭpleumŏnĭcus , Veg. Vet. 1, 28; and pĕrĭpleumŏnĭăcus , Theod. Prisc. 2, 4), a, um, adj., = περιπνευμονικός, of or belonging to consumption , consumptive , peripneumonic , Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 14, 93; Plin. 26, 7, 25, § 41 (in Cels. 4, 7, written as Greek). —As subst.: pĕrĭpneumŏnĭcus , i, m., a consumptive person (usu. in plur.), Plin. 20, 17, 68, § 176; 22, 24, 50, § 108; 23, 7, 63, § 123; Veg. 1, 38, 3.

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