Etymology

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Today it means: Pertaining to tabes. Full definition →

Latin tābidus ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*teh₂-
  2. Latintābeō
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  4. Latintābidus
  5. English todaytabid

From tabes + -id, from Latin tābidus (“melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, rotting”), from tābeō + -idus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.