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prettygoodwordTheme week! And these will be fun words to pronounce, as these are all words that begin with the ridiculous combination phth-, starting with:
phthisic (TIZ-ik, THIZ-ik) - adj., of or pertaining to a wasting disease of the lungs, such as tuberculosis. n., a person with tuberculosis or other lung disease such as asthma; alternate form of phthisis, the disease itself.
Which gives us some bonus words, phthisis, outdated medical term for pulmonary tuberculosis, and phthisiology, the care, treatment, and study of tuberculosis. I have to disagree with the pronunciation, as you really ought to get that /f/ in front of the /th/ (or if you insist, /t/) for the full effect. I first met the word describing the sounds of the pipes of an old house attempting to deliver hot water to a claw-foot tub. First recorded in 1300–50 in the Middle English form tisik(e)/ptisik(e), from Anglo-Norman tisique/thesique, consumptive (both noun and adjective), from Latin phthisicus (adj.), consumptive, from Greek phthisikós, consumptive, adjectival form of phthísis, lung disease, lit. a wasting away, form phthí(ein), to decay.
---L.
phthisic (TIZ-ik, THIZ-ik) - adj., of or pertaining to a wasting disease of the lungs, such as tuberculosis. n., a person with tuberculosis or other lung disease such as asthma; alternate form of phthisis, the disease itself.
Which gives us some bonus words, phthisis, outdated medical term for pulmonary tuberculosis, and phthisiology, the care, treatment, and study of tuberculosis. I have to disagree with the pronunciation, as you really ought to get that /f/ in front of the /th/ (or if you insist, /t/) for the full effect. I first met the word describing the sounds of the pipes of an old house attempting to deliver hot water to a claw-foot tub. First recorded in 1300–50 in the Middle English form tisik(e)/ptisik(e), from Anglo-Norman tisique/thesique, consumptive (both noun and adjective), from Latin phthisicus (adj.), consumptive, from Greek phthisikós, consumptive, adjectival form of phthísis, lung disease, lit. a wasting away, form phthí(ein), to decay.
---L.
