di.a.be.tes
n.（名词）Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive discharge of urine and persistent thirst, especially one of the two types of diabetes mellitus.多尿症，糖尿病：一种新陈代谢失调症，以排尿过多和持续的口渴为特征，尤指糖尿病的两种类型之一
来源：Middle English diabete 中古英语 diabete from Medieval Latin diabôtôs 源自 中世纪拉丁语 diabôtôs from Latin 源自 拉丁语 from Greek [siphon, diabetes] 源自 希腊语 [呼吸管，糖尿病] from diabainein [to cross over, straddle] 源自 diabainein [穿越，跨立] dia- [dia-] dia- [前缀，表.有始有终的.] bainein [to go] * see g w3- bainein [去] *参见 g w3-
<注释>Diabetes is named for one of its distressing symptoms.The disease was known to the Greeks asdiabôtôs, a word derived from the verbdiabainein, made up of the prefixdia-, .across, apart,. and the word bainein, .to walk, stand.. The verbdiabeinein meant .to stride, walk, or stand with legs asunder.; hence, its derivativediabôtôs meant .one that straddles,. or specifically .a compass, siphon..The sense .siphon. gave rise to the use ofdiabôtôs as the name for a disease involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the formdiabete, in a medical text written around 425. 糖尿病因其痛苦的症状之一而得名。此病症闻名于希腊语diabetes ， 是动词diabainein 派生出的单词， 由前缀dia- .穿过，隔开.和单词 bainein .走，站.构成。 动词diabeinein 表示.跨过，走过或两条腿分开站着.； 因此，其派生词diabetes 表示.一个人叉腿站着.， 或专指.指南针，虹吸管.。在diabetes 使用.虹吸管.是表示排尿量过多的一种病的名称。 Diabaets 一词第一次被记录到英文中是在425年前后的一本医学课本中，以diabete 的形式出现
