scabies
English
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scabies of the hand
Etymology
From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskei.biz/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪbiz
- Rhymes: -eɪbiːz
Noun
scabies (uncountable)
- (pathology) An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur.
- Synonym: (obsolete) leprosy
- Coordinate term: (in animals) mange
- 1889, T. H. Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century:
- Further, just as the discovery of the cause of scabies proved the absurdity of many of the old prescriptions for the prevention and treatment of that disease; so the discovery of the cause of splenic fever, and other such maladies, has given a new direction to prophylactic and curative measures against the worst scourges of humanity.
Related terms
- scab
- scabrous
Translations
an infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei
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Anagrams
- abscise, ecbasis
Latin
Etymology
From scabō (“scratch, scrape”) + -iēs.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈska.bi.eːs/, [ˈs̠käbieːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈska.bi.es/, [ˈskäːbies]
Noun
scabiēs f (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension
- roughness, scurf
- mildew
- scab, mange, itch
- (figuratively) itching, longing, pruriency
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | scabiēs | scabiēs |
Genitive | scabiēī | scabiērum |
Dative | scabiēī | scabiēbus |
Accusative | scabiem | scabiēs |
Ablative | scabiē | scabiēbus |
Vocative | scabiēs | scabiēs |
Derived terms
- scabidus
- scabiola
- scabiōsus
- scabitūdō
Related terms
- scaber
- scabō
- scobis
Descendants
- Aromanian: zgaibã
- English: scabies
- Italian: scabbia
- Romanian: scabie, zgaibă
References
- “scabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scabies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette