rheumatic: [14] Greek rheuma meant literally ‘flow, stream’ (it came ultimately from the same Indo-European base as produced English stream, and was a close relative of the Greek verb rhein ‘flow’, which provides the second halves of English catarrh and diarrhoea). It was used for a ‘watery discharge from the body’, and was borrowed into English (via late Latin rheuma and Old French reume) as rheum [14] in the sense ‘mucous discharge from the eyes or nose’.
Pains in the joints were in former times thought to be caused by watery secretions within the body, and so towards the end of the 17th century the term rheumatism was applied to them. => catarrh, diarrhoea, rhyme, rhythm
late 14c., from Old French reumatique (Modern French rhumatique), from Latin rheumaticus "troubled with rheum," from Greek rheumatikos, from rheuma "discharge from the body" (see rheum).
双语例句
1. Evans had rheumatic fever, missed school and fell behind.
伊万斯得了风湿热，没去上课，功课也落下了。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.
他患急性风湿性关节炎,在医院住了三个月.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. She had been up the whole night with rheumatic aches.
她因风湿痛整夜未眠.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. It gives rapid relief from rheumatic aches and pains.
它能迅速缓解风湿疼痛。
来自辞典例句
5. Intern: Did you ever have rheumatic or fever as a child?
