English → Latin
“consumption” in Latin
cōnsūmptiōconsumption (act of consuming); wasting; employing, usetābēsthe act of wasting away (due to a disease or by other means: especially of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord subservatrophiaatrophy (wasting consumption)căchexĭaa consumptionphthisisconsumption, phthisis, tuberculosis
The English word consumption itself goes back to Latin sūmptus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
consumption
consumptio (a consuming; Vid: To CONSUME).
The disease, tabes (of which Cels., 3, 22, gives the different kinds in Greek; later writers in Latin; as, atrophia; cachexia; phthisis). A slow consumption, lenta tabes: to fall into a consumption, corpus ad tabem venit: tabes aliquem invadit: to be dying of consumption, *tabe laborare [Sidon., Ep., 5, 14, uses phthisiscare, to be suffering from consumption]: to die of a rapid cnsumption, subito macie, et deinde morte corripi. OBSERVE: Phthisis is (according to Cels., 3, 22) the longe periculosissima species; oritur fere e capite; inde in pulmonem destillat; huic exulceratio accedit; ex hac febricula levis fit, quae etiam cum quievit, tamen, repetit: frequens tussis est: pus exscreatur; interdum cruentum aliquid. This is “vera phthisis.”
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for consumption?
- The usual Latin words for “consumption” are cōnsūmptiō, tābēs, atrophia; also căchexĭa, phthisis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.