consumption
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The amount consumed.
- The act of consuming or destroying.
- The wasting away of the human body through disease.
- Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
Etymology / origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnsūmptiōder. Old French consumpcionbor. Middle English consumpcioun English consumption From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.
- cōnsūmptiō(la)→
- consumpcion(fro)→
- consumpcioun(enm)→
- sūmptus(la)→
- consumption (English)
- Relations: der, inh, der, der
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