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rheumatic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adjective

rheumatic (comparative more rheumatic, superlative most rheumatic)

• Resembling or relating to rheumatism.
• Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.

Noun

rheumatic (plural rheumatics)

• (rare) A person suffering from rheumatism
  • ✤ It has been a clinical observation with me that the majority of chronic rheumatics are likewise the subjects of chronic constipation.¹
  • ✤ It must, be confessed, however, that the majority of rheumatics are not able to stand such treatment.²
  • ✤ The rheumatics in the survey who had complete disability had had this same disability for an average of two years.³

Etymology

From Middle English reumatic, reumatik, rewmatik, rewmetike, from Middle French reumatique and its etymon Latin rheumaticus (Medieval Latin reumaticus), from Ancient Greek ῥευματικός (rheumatikós), from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).⁴⁵

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹuːˈmætɪk/
• Audio (US): 🔊
  • ✤ Rhymes: -ætɪk

Printed 2026-09-15.

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Footnotes

1. 1890, The American practitioner, Volumes 9-10: ↩

2. 1911, George Knapp Abbott, Principles and practice of hydrotherapy: ↩

3. 1933, George Hoyt Bigelow, Herbert Luther Lombard, Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases in Massachusetts ‎${}^{[1]}$, page 19: ↩

4. “reumatik, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. ↩

5. “rheumatic, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

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