You can picture 'disease' as a named illness that has taken hold inside a living body — a specific sickness with its own causes and symptoms, working away in a person, animal or plant. From that concrete picture of an organism being , the word stretches to anything that is 'sick' in the same way: a society, or the way someone thinks, that has something deeply and harmfully wrong with it.
From the word’s history
From Old French 'desaise' = 'des-' (lack of) + 'aise' (ease) — literally 'lack of ease', dis-ease, the absence of comfort/wellness that an illness brings.
源自古法文 desaise，由 des-（缺乏）加 aise（安適）組成，字面就是「缺乏安適」——dis-ease，也就是生病時那種不舒服、不安適的狀態。這正好對上「身體生病」這個核心畫面。
etymonline (disease < Old French desaise, dis- + aise 'ease')
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
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diseasenoun/dɪˈziːz/
- 1
medicinesciencesAn abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.
- The exposed workers had some kind of disease that left their skin splotchy and their faces withered.
- 2
Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- 3
A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]
diseaseverb/dɪˈziːz/
- 1
To infect with a disease.
- 2
obsoleteTo cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
- Whyll he yett ſpeake there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed diſeaſe not the maſter.
- […]mote he ſoft himſelfe appeaſe, And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth; His double burden did him ſore diſeaſe.
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