hydrops

From Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (húdrōps), from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”). Doublet of hydropsy and dropsy.

hydrops (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in a tissue or cavity.

• hydrops fetalis

• edema

From Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (húdrōps, “dropsy”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhy.droːps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.drops]

hydrōps m (genitive hydrōpis); third declension

1. dropsy

Third-declension noun.

• ὕδερος (húderos)

• Late Latin: hydropisia
  • Old French: ydropisie, idropsie
    • French: hydropisie
    • → Middle English: dropesie, idropesie
      • English: dropsy, hydropsy
  • Old Spanish: ydropisia
    • Spanish: hidropesía
• → English: hydrops

• “hydrops”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hydrops”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers