名詞 diabetes:

1. any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst

di.a.be.tes

n.（名詞）
Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive discharge of urine and persistent thirst, especially one of the two types of diabetes mellitus.
多尿癥，糖尿病：一種新陳代謝失調癥，以排尿過多和持續(xù)的口渴為特征，尤指糖尿病的兩種類型之一

來源：
Middle English diabete
中古英語 diabete
from Medieval Latin diabôtôs
源自 中世紀拉丁語 diabôtôs
from Latin
源自 拉丁語
from Greek [siphon, diabetes]
源自 希臘語 [呼吸管，糖尿病]
from diabainein [to cross over, straddle]
源自 diabainein [穿越，跨立]
dia- [dia-]
dia- [前綴，表.有始有終的.]
bainein [to go] * see g w3-
bainein [去] *參見 g w3-

<注釋>Diabetes is named for one of its distressing symptoms.The disease was known to the Greeks asdiabôtôs, a word derived from the verbdiabainein, made up of the prefixdia-, .across, apart,. and the word bainein, .to walk, stand.. The verbdiabeinein meant .to stride, walk, or stand with legs asunder.; hence, its derivativediabôtôs meant .one that straddles,. or specifically .a compass, siphon..The sense .siphon. gave rise to the use ofdiabôtôs as the name for a disease involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the formdiabete, in a medical text written around 425.
糖尿病因其痛苦的癥狀之一而得名。此病癥聞名于希臘語diabetes ， 是動詞diabainein 派生出的單詞， 由前綴dia- .穿過，隔開.和單詞 bainein .走，站.構成。 動詞diabeinein 表示.跨過，走過或兩條腿分開站著.； 因此，其派生詞diabetes 表示.一個人叉腿站著.， 或專指.指南針，虹吸管.。在diabetes 使用.虹吸管.是表示排尿量過多的一種病的名稱。 Diabaets 一詞第一次被記錄到英文中是在425年前后的一本醫(yī)學課本中，以diabete 的形式出現(xiàn)