tabid

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tabid¹

  • /ˈtæbid/

Where it comes from

From tabes + -id, from Latin tābidus (“melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, rotting”), from tābeō + -idus.

adjective more tabid · most tabid

  1. Pertaining to tabes. The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]
  2. Wasting away, declining. he certainly muſt have gone upon ſome of the old Roman ſouls, of which he had read, without reflecting how much, by a gradual and moſt tabid decline, in a courſe of eighteen hundred years, they muſt unavoidably have ſhrunk, ſo as to have come, when he wrote, almoſt to nothing.

Tabid²

proper noun

  1. A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.

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@misc{tabid_2026,
  title = {tabid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tabid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}