tussis

Latin tussis (“cough”)

tussis

1. A cough.

• suists

tussis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of tossir

From Proto-Italic *tussis, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old English aþytan (“to expel”), Old Norse aþiota (“to expel”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtus.sis/, [ˈt̪ʊs̠ːɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtus.sis/, [ˈt̪usːis]

tussis f (genitive tussis); third declension

1. cough

In the plural, tussēs indicates a severe cough.

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).

• “tussis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tussis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tussis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette