The corpus record — Latin

cacoethes

cacoethes · n

an incurable passion for writing

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k

What it meant

căcŏēthĕs — Lewis & Short

căcŏēthĕs, is, n., = kako/hqes, to/ (bad state or habit);

I in medic. lang., an obstinate, malignant disease, Cels. 5, 28, n 2; Plin. 24, 3, 3, § 7.—Plur. cacoëthe = kakoh/qh, ta/, Plin. 22, 25, 64, § 132; 24, 10, 47, § 78. —Hence,

B Trop., an incurable passion for writing or scribbling: insanabile Scribendi cacoëthes, Juv. 7, 52.

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.