escrófula

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Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since 1409. Learned borrowing from Latin scrōfula (little sow).

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Noun

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escrófula f (plural escrófulas)

  1. (pathology) scrofula (a form tuberculosis)
    Synonyms: alporca, carbunco, lamparón
    • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 157:
      aas vezes nace con algũas sobeg[e]dũes de carne ou de landoas que se geeran ontre o coiro e a carne, e son chamadas landoas o[u] [e]scrofulas, que dizen porcas
      sometimes it grows with some excess of flesh or of glands that are generated in between the skin and the flesh, and they are called glands or scrofulas, which they call porcas

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin scrōfula.

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Noun

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escrófula f (plural escrófulas)

  1. (pathology) scrofula (a form tuberculosis)

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /esˈkɾofula/ [esˈkɾo.fu.la]
  • Rhymes: -ofula
  • Syllabification: es‧cró‧fu‧la

Noun

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escrófula f (plural escrófulas)

  1. scrofula

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