jaundice

jaundice

English

Etymology

From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔndɪs/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒændɚz/, /ˈd͡ʒɑndɚz/, /ˈd͡ʒɔndɚz/ (see janders)[1][2]

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• Rhymes: -ɔːndɪs

Noun

jaundice (countable and uncountable, plural jaundices)

1. (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine. [from early 14th c.]

   Synonym: icterus

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], page 163:

     Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?

   • 1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes:

     But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!

   • 2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 215:

     In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).

   • 2016, Dueep Jyot Singh; John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books, →ISBN, page 8:

     Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?

2. (figurative) A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy. [from 1620s]
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, page 48:

     No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]

Derived terms

• black jaundice
• blue jaundice

Translations

morbid condition

Arabic: صُفَار‎ m (ṣufār), يَرَقَان‎ m (yaraqān) Armenian: դեղնախտ (hy) (dełnaxt) Aromanian: gãlbinari f Assamese: কুহুমসাৰ (kuhumxar) Asturian: jaldía f (Montañés) Azerbaijani: sarılıq Belarusian: жаўтуха f (žaŭtuxa) Bulgarian: жълтеница (bg) f (žǎltenica) Burmese: အသားဝါရောဂါ (my) (a.sa:warau:ga) Catalan: icterícia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 黃疸／黄疸 (zh) (huángdǎn), 黃疸病／黄疸病 (zh) (huángdǎnbìng) Czech: žloutenka (cs) f Danish: gulsot Dutch: geelzucht (nl) f Esperanto: iktero Finnish: keltaisuus (fi), keltatauti (fi), ikterus (fi) French: jaunisse (fr) f Georgian: დანდალუკი (dandaluḳi) German: Gelbsucht (de) f, Ikterus (de) f Greek: ίκτερος (el) (íkteros) Ancient: ἴκτερος m (íkteros) Hebrew: צהבת‎ (he) (tzahevet) Hindi: पीलिया (hi) m (pīliyā) Hungarian: sárgaság (hu) Icelandic: gula (is) f Irish: buíocháin m pl Italian: itterizia (it) f, ittero (it) m Japanese: 黄疸 (おうだん, ōdan) Latin: aurūgō f Lezgi: саралух (saraluχ) Luxembourgish: Gielzecht f Macedonian: жолтица f (žoltica) Maori: mate kōwhai Plautdietsch: Jälesocht f, Gaulsucht f Polish: żółtaczka (pl) f Portuguese: icterícia (pt) f Romanian: gălbinare (ro), gălbenare (ro), icter (ro) Russian: желту́ха (ru) f (želtúxa) Sanskrit: पाण्डु (sa) m (pāṇḍu) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жутица f Roman: žutica (sh) f Slovak: žltačka (sk) f Slovene: zlatenica f Spanish: ictericia (es) f Swedish: gulsot (sv), ikterus (sv) Tagalog: pamumunglo Telugu: కామెర్లు (te) (kāmerlu) Tocharian B: kamāl, halimak Turkish: sarılık (tr) Ukrainian: жовтяниця f (žovtjanycja) Vilamovian: gaołzyft Zazaki: zerdani

See also

• cyanopathy

Verb

jaundice (third-person singular simple present jaundices, present participle jaundicing, simple past and past participle jaundiced)

1. (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. [from 1791]
   • 1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel

     The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.

Translations

affect with jaundice; prejudice

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: groen en geel worden van nijd of afgunst over Finnish: sairastaa keltatautia (to be affected by jaundice); mennä vihreäksi kateudesta (to turn green due to envy) French: en faire une jaunisse German: sich verfärben, rot anlaufen Russian: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: mamunglo Thai: ดีซ่าน (th) (dii-sâan) Zazaki: zerdani veten

References

1. Bingham, Caleb (1808), “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎, 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, OCLC 671561968, page 75.
2. Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, DOI:10.7312/hall93950, →ISBN, § 7, page 33.

Further reading

• jaundice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Jacuinde