What is ailment? Is it a noun or maybe a verb? Where did it come from? Is it possible to pick up synonyms for it that everyone understands? How many syllables can this word be divided into, and on which syllable does the stress fall? This and more you will learn from this article.
The origin and meaning of the word "disease"
The word "ailment" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "dug", which meant "strength, he alth, power".
Illness is a severe indisposition, infirmity.
For example:
- The body of the young prince was exuded by a terrible disease.
- During the day, the ailment calmed down, and at night it came again.
Accent
The word "disease" consists of five letters and five sounds: two vowels and three consonants. In accordance with the rule "how many vowels - so many syllables", the word we are studying is divided into two syllables. If there is more than one syllable in a word, then one of them is stressed, and the rest are unstressed. In our case, the stressed syllable is the second one.
Morphological characteristics, declension
From the point of view of morphology, the disease -it is a common and inanimate masculine noun, second declension.
| Case | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | What? | A disease is a disease. | Let all ailments leave you, master. |
| Genitive | What? | Matvey Illarionovich Parkhomov died of an incomprehensible illness. | Onion was considered a cure for seven ailments. |
| Dative | What? | This disease is characterized by symptoms such as cough, chills and rash. | All illnesses should be taken seriously. |
| Accusative | What? | Oleg did not pay attention to his illness. | Peter Vasilyevich was afraid of any ailments. |
| Instrumental | What? | The patient was never able to cope with a serious illness. | Doctors must fight disease. |
| Prepositional case | About what? | Science knows nothing about this mysterious disease. | I'm not a doctor and I don't know anything about illnesses. |
Synonyms and antonyms for the word
Many obsolete words have one or more modern synonyms.
Illness is:
- Illness: A severe, painful illness brought up in Michael a strong, unshakable spirit.
- Powerlessness: Anastasia, powerless, sank intochair.
- Sore: The girl's body was disfigured by sores.
- Illness: Even an experienced doctor could not recognize the disease that blew the hope of the Ottoman Empire.
- Illness: A slight indisposition prevented the young man from sleeping.
- Infirmity: An old woman's lot: infirmity and peace.
- Sickness: What is this incomprehensible ailment?
- Sickness: This sickness is unfortunately incurable.
- Illness: The heir owed his illness to poor heredity.
Unlike synonyms, antonyms have the opposite meaning.
So, illness is unhe althy, infirmity.
Phrases with the noun "disease"
What could be the affliction?
Mine, yours, his, hers, common, somehow, piled on, onset, deadly, curable, incurable, scary, terrible, fearless, ordinary, strange, seeming, feigned, real, fake, real, destroying, poisonous, incessant, fantastic, pulmonary, cardiac, old, old, new, one, many, multiple, cured, asymptomatic, insidious, various, various, given, past, past, physical, mental, bodily, serious, love, any, mysterious, mysterious, senile, infantile, youthful, tormenting, painful, hereditary, acquired, chronic, alien, destructive, old, sudden, first, second.
What can illness do?
Begin, continue, end, hit, ruin, kill, torment, cease, heal, progress, retreat,descend, intensify, weaken, show up, hide, disfigure, spread, return, exhaust, force, last, repel, chain, seize, seize, undermine, stop.
