palpitation

From Middle French palpitation, from Latin palpitatio.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

palpitation (countable and uncountable, plural palpitations)

1. An abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness.
   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 101–102:

     Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.

From Latin palpitātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /pal.pi.ta.sjɔ̃/

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palpitation f (plural palpitations)

1. palpitation

• palpiter

• → Romanian: palpitație

• “palpitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.