adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to sepsis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
septic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian: /ˈsep.tɪ̝k/
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Australian: [ˈsep.thɪ̝k]
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɛp.tɪk/
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈsɛp.thɪk]
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CMU ARPABET: S EH1 P T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Causing sepsis or putrefaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 3
Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- septic tank
- a septic system
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adj
Meaning 4
Of the seventh degree or order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1750, John Pringle, Further Experiments on Substances Resisting Putrefaction, in 1809, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson (editors), The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume X: 1750—1755, page 86, But, in the prosecution of this subject, he had met with very few real septics; and found many substances, commonly accounted such, of a quite opposite nature.
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noun
Meaning 6
A person who has sepsis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 8
A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
An American, a Yank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, ethnic, slang, slur
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noun
Meaning 10
Alternative form of septic; an American.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Cockney, New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative, slang
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adjective
Meaning 11
containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a septic sore throat
- a septic environment
- septic sewage
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: infected
Antonyms: antiseptic
adjective
Meaning 12
of or relating to or caused by putrefaction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the septic action occurs at the bottom of the septic tank
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Synonyms: none provided
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History
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σηπτικός (sēptikós, “characterized by putridity”), from σηπτός (sēptós), from σήπω (sḗpō).
From Latin septem (“seven”) + -ic.
Short form of Cockney rhyming slang septic tank (“Yank”).
Short form of Australian rhyming slang septic tank (“Yank”).
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: септичен (septičen) — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Catalan: sèptic — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Danish: septisk — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Esperanto: sepsa — of or pertaining to sepsis
- French: septique — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Galician: séptico — of or pertaining to sepsis
- German: septisch — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Greek: σηπτικός (siptikós) — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Ancient Greek: σηπτικός (sēptikós) — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Indonesian: septik — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Irish: seipteach — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Italian: settico — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Latin: sēpticus — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Māori: ero — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Norwegian Bokmål: septisk — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: septisk — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Portuguese: séptico — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Portuguese: sético — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Spanish: séptico — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Swedish: septisk — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Welsh: septig — of or pertaining to sepsis
- Bulgarian: септичен (septičen) — causing sepsis
- Catalan: sèptic — causing sepsis
- Indonesian: septik — causing sepsis
- Irish: seipteach — causing sepsis
- Polish: septyczny — causing sepsis
- Spanish: séptico — causing sepsis