diathesis
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
diathesis /dʌɪˈaθəsɪs/
▶noun (pl. diatheses /-siːz/)
- 1 Medicine a tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition.
- 2 Linguistics the set of syntactic patterns with which a verb or other word is most typically associated.
– origin C17: mod. L., from Gk, ‘disposition’.
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