spasmus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).

Noun

spasmus m (genitive spasmī); second declension

1. cramp, convulsion, spasm

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	spasmus	spasmī
genitive	spasmī	spasmōrum
dative	spasmō	spasmīs
accusative	spasmum	spasmōs
ablative	spasmō	spasmīs
vocative	spasme	spasmī

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: spasmo (archaic), spasimo
• ⇒ Late Latin: pasmus
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: pasmo
    • Portuguese: pasmo
    • Spanish: pasmo
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *spasmare
  • Italian: spasmare (archaic), spasimare
  • Old French: pasmer
    • French: pâmer
    • → Galician: pasmar
    • → Portuguese: pasmar
    • → Spanish: pasmar (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: espasme
• → Galician: espasmo
• → Old French: espasme, spasme, epasme (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: spasmo (medicine)
• → Polish: spazm
• → Portuguese: espasmo
• → Spanish: espasmo

References

• “spasmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press