fastidium

From Latin fastīdium (“loathing, disgust”).

fastidium (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat

By haplology perhaps from *fastutidium, from fastus (“disdain”) + taedium (“weariness”).[1]

fastīdium n (genitive fastīdiī or fastīdī); second declension

1. loathing, disgust, disdain
2. squeamishness
3. fastidiousness

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• fastīdiō
• fastīdiōsus

• Catalan: fastig, fàstic
• Galician: fastío
• → Italian: fastidio
• Portuguese: fastio
• Spanish: hastío; → fastidio

• “fastīdĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fastidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fastidium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fastidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.