tarantism

n. 毒蜘蛛舞蹈症 [医] 毒蛛病

发音

UK /ˈtæɹəntɪzm/
US /ˈtæɹənˌtɪzm/

词形变化

tarantisms 复数 tarantisms

别名

tarantulism tarentism

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An extreme urge to dance, popularly thought to have been caused by the bite of a tarantula (Lycosa tarantula) and prevalent in southern Italy in the 15th through 17th centuries.

    不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

chorea

词源

From New Latin tarantismus + English -ism (suffix forming nouns of action, process, or result), from Old Italian Taranto (“seaport in southern Italy”) + Latin -ismus (“-ism”); see further at tarantula. The English word is cognate with French tarentisme, Italian tarantismo.

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