Word.ws English Dictionary

aposteme

aposteme noun: an abscess; a pustulent swelling.

Noun

aposteme (plural apostemes)

  1. (obsolete) An abscess; a pustulent swelling.

Forms of aposteme

pluralapostemes

Origin of aposteme

From Middle English aposteme (“a swelling, inflamation”), from Old French aposteme and Late Latin apostēma, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστημα (apóstēma, “abcesse”) (source of Modern Greek απόστημα (apóstima, “abscess”)), related to ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō, “to remove”).

Words formed from aposteme

Questions about aposteme

What does aposteme mean?
Aposteme means an abscess; a pustulent swelling.
What part of speech is aposteme?
Aposteme is a noun.
What is the plural of aposteme?
The plural of aposteme is apostemes.

Words near aposteme in the dictionary

  1. apostemates
  2. apostemating
  3. apostemation
  4. apostemations
  5. apostematous
  6. aposteme
  7. apostemes
  8. aposteriori
  9. aposteriorism
  10. aposterioristic
  11. aposthia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aposteme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “aposteme.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/aposteme. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.