syphilis

syphilis

See also: Syphilis

English

Alternative forms

• syph (slang)

Etymology

From New Latin syphilis, originally the title of a poem by Girolamo Fracastoro concerning “Syphilus”, a shepherd boy who insulted the Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪfɪlɪs/

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Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

   Synonyms: (dated) Cupid's disease, (obsolete) great-pox, (dated) French disease, French gout, French pox, ladies' fever, leprosy, lues, lues venerea, syph

   Coordinate terms: clap, gonorrhea

   Hypernyms: STD, VD

Derived terms

• syphilitic
• syphilize
• syphiloid

Translations

sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum

Arabic: زُهَرِيّ‎ (zuhariyy), مَرَض فِرَنْجِيّ‎ (maraḍ firanjiyy), اَلاِفْرَنْجِيّ‎ (al-ifranjiyy) Arikara: čeeníwiš Assiniboine: ceȟníbi Bulgarian: сифилис m (sifilis) Catalan: sífilis m Chichewa: chindoko Chinese: Mandarin: 梅毒 (zh) (méidú) Czech: syfilis f, příjice (cs) f Danish: syfilis c Dhivehi: ސިފިލިސް‎ (sifilis) Dutch: syfilis (nl) f Esperanto: sifiliso Estonian: süüfilis Faroese: fransósir f pl, syfilis n Finnish: syfilis (fi), kuppa (fi) French: syphilis (fr) f Galician: gálico (gl) m, lúes (gl) f, morbo gálico (gl) m, sífilis (gl) f German: Syphilis (de) f Greek: σύφιλη (el) f (sýfili) Greenlandic: niviarsiapilunneq, syfilisi Hawaiian: kaokao Hebrew: עַגֶּבֶת‎ (he) m ('agévet) Hindi: उपदंश (hi) (updanś) Hungarian: szifilisz (hu) Icelandic: sárasótt (is) f Indonesian: raja singa (id), sifilis (id), lues (id) Interlingua: syphilis Irish: bolgach fhrancach f Italian: sifilide (it) f, lue (it) f Japanese: 梅毒 (ja) (ばいどく, baidoku), ジフィリス (shifirisu), 唐瘡 (karagasa) Kalmyk: мерәсн (meräsn) Kazakh: мерез (merez) Korean: 매독(梅毒) (ko) (maedok) Koyraboro Senni: masar Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: agire (ku) f Latvian: sifiliss m Malay: penyakit raja singa Maori: pākewakewa, mate pākewakewa Nandi: takan Navajo: cháchʼosh Niuean: kafukula Norman: chancre m Norwegian: Bokmål: syfilis m Nynorsk: syfilis m Polish: kiła (pl) m, syfilis (pl) m, franca (pl) f, przymiot (pl) m, lues (pl) m Portuguese: sífilis (pt) f Quechua: wanthi unquy Romanian: sifilis (ro) n Russian: си́филис (ru) m (sífilis), сифо́н (ru) m (sifón), генера́л (ru) m (generál) Slovak: syfilis (sk) m Spanish: sífilis (es) f, gálico (es) Swahili: kaswende (sw) Swedish: syfilis (sv) Tibetan: སེ་མོག (se mog), རྒྱ་ནད (rgya nad) Turkish: frengi (tr), sifilis (tr) Tuvan: паш (paş) Volapük: süfilid Yapese: baaydook

Further reading

• syphilis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.fi.lis/

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Noun

syphilis f (plural syphilis)

1. syphilis

Further reading

• “syphilis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

1. syphilis

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Latin

Etymology

First used in 1530 by Girolamo Fracastoro, from the name of a mythical first sufferer of the disease, Syphilus.

Noun

syphilis f (genitive syphilidis); third declension

1. (New Latin, pathology) syphilis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	syphilis	syphilidēs
Genitive	syphilidis	syphilidum
Dative	syphilidī	syphilidibus
Accusative	syphilidem	syphilidēs
Ablative	syphilide	syphilidibus
Vocative	syphilis	syphilidēs

Synonyms

• luēs, luēs venerea, pudendagra, morbus Gallicus, scabiēs Gallica, morbus Neapolītānus, morbus Hispānicus, scabiēs Hispānica, morbus Indicus, morbus Ītalus, morbus Ītalicus, luēs Hispānica, luēs Gallica, luēs Neapolītāna