tussis

From Latin tussis (“cough”).

tussis (uncountable)

1. A cough.
   • 1902, Robert M. Tooker, “The Homœopathic Treatment of Whooping Cough”, in The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 50, page 48:

     In cachectic subjects, or in a strumous child the victim is never safe when the diathesis is reinforced by any contagion which further undermines a constitution built on sand. Even in such cases the force of the tussis attack can be rendered less forceful by judicious treatment and proper care.

   • 1971, Edward Wagenknecht, James Russell Lowell; Portrait of a Many-sided Man, page 224:

     Except of my coffin, / For what can I else with this horrible tussis?

   • 2010, Karen Bowden-Cox, Honorable Passage: Repaying Evil With..., page 156:

     As George whittled the lengthy wood, his tussis nearly cured, he found himself surrounded by curious lads and lasses.

• tussic, tussive, tussal, tussicular
• tussiculation

• suists

tussis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of tossir

From Proto-Italic *tussis, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). The unexpected lack of vowel lengthening of the u and the consonant gemination of the s in the Proto-Italic form may be from onomatopoeic influence.^[1] Cognate with Old English aþytan (“to expel”), Old Norse aþiota (“to expel”).^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtus.sis/, [ˈt̪ʊs̠ːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate 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.