euthanasie
See also: Euthanasie and euthanasié
Dutch
Alternative forms
- euthanasia (obsolete)
Etymology
Likely borrowed from French euthanasie. The spelling with -ie has been attested since the 1840s. Before then the Latinate spelling euthanasia was used, which was borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐθανασίᾱ (euthanasíā) in the seventeenth century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌœy̯.taː.naːˈzi/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: eu‧tha‧na‧sie
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
euthanasie f (uncountable)
- euthanasia (medically assisted killing)
- (obsolete) any gentle or good death
Derived terms
- euthanaseren
- euthanasiearts
- euthanasieverklaring
Further reading
- euthanasie on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐθανασία (euthanasía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ø.ta.na.zi/
Audio: (file)
Noun
euthanasie f (plural euthanasies)
- euthanasia (practice of killing a human being or animal)
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Czech: eutanazie
- → Dutch: euthanasie
- → German: Euthanasie
- → Estonian: eutanaasia
- → Japanese: オイタナジー (oitanajī)
- → Japanese: ユータナジー (yūtanajī)
- → Romanian: eutanasie
- → Serbo-Croatian: eutanázija
- → Swedish: eutanasi
- → Turkish: ötanazi
Verb
euthanasie
- inflection of euthanasier:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “euthanasie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.