extremity
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extremity
- /ɪkˈstɹɛmɪti/ UK
- /ɛk-/ UK
- /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/ US
- /-ɾi/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extrēmitātem (“extremity; border, perimeter; ending”), from extrēmīs (“furthest, extreme”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); see extreme. Extrēmīs is derived from exter (“external, outward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + -issimus (superlative suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-is- (comparative suffix) + *-(t)m̥mo- (absolutive case suffix)).
noun extremities · extremitys
- The most extreme or furthest point of something. [B]eſtowe your love on him, who, were it not to do you ſervice, would through the extremitie of love rather wiſh to die then live.
- An extreme measure. The Fort on the Mount St. Catherine after a Month's Siege was reduc'd to ſuch Extremitys, that they who defended it were forc'd to treat about a Surrender: and Aug. 29. 'twas agreed between the Engliſh Commiſſioners, Edward Earl of Mortaigne, Thomas Earl of Salisbury, and Fitz-Hugh, and the French C
- A hand or foot. Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.
- A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”). The danger of wounds of the extremities consists in the injury done to the blood-vessels, nerves, articulations, and bones.
