diathesis
/daɪˈæθɪsɪs/noun
1
- usu. with modifier Medicine a tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition【医】素质：
a bleeding diathesis.
出血素质。
2
- Linguistics the set of syntactic patterns with which a verb or other word is most typically associated【语言学】态。
词源
mid 17th cent.: modern Latin， from Greek， 'disposition'， from diatithenai 'arrange'. Sense 2 dates from the mid 20th cent.