ψωρίασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ψωρῐάω (psōrĭáō, “to have the itch, scabies, or mange”), from ψώρᾱ (psṓrā) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /psɔː.rí.aː.sis/ → /psoˈri.a.sis/ → /psoˈri.a.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psɔː.rí.aː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /psoˈri.a.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psoˈri.a.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psoˈri.a.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psoˈri.a.sis/

Noun

ψωρῐ́ᾱσῐς • (psōrĭ́āsĭs) f (genitive ψωρῐᾱ́σεως); third declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) itch; scabies; mange

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ψωρῐ́ᾱσῐς; τῆς ψωρῐᾱ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ψωρῐ́ᾱσῐς hē psōrĭ́āsĭs	τὼ ψωρῐᾱ́σει tṑ psōrĭā́sei	αἱ ψωρῐᾱ́σεις hai psōrĭā́seis
Genitive	τῆς ψωρῐᾱ́σεως tês psōrĭā́seōs	τοῖν ψωρῐᾱσέοιν toîn psōrĭāséoin	τῶν ψωρῐᾱ́σεων tôn psōrĭā́seōn
Dative	τῇ ψωρῐᾱ́σει tēî psōrĭā́sei	τοῖν ψωρῐᾱσέοιν toîn psōrĭāséoin	ταῖς ψωρῐᾱ́σεσῐ / ψωρῐᾱ́σεσῐν taîs psōrĭā́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ψωρῐ́ᾱσῐν tḕn psōrĭ́āsĭn	τὼ ψωρῐᾱ́σει tṑ psōrĭā́sei	τᾱ̀ς ψωρῐᾱ́σεις tā̀s psōrĭā́seis
Vocative	ψωρῐ́ᾱσῐ psōrĭ́āsĭ	ψωρῐᾱ́σει psōrĭā́sei	ψωρῐᾱ́σεις psōrĭā́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: ψωρίαση (psoríasi)
• → Catalan: psoriasi
• → Czech: psoriáza
• → Danish: psoriasis
• → English: psoriasis
• → Esperanto: psoriazo
• → Faroese: psoriasis
• → Finnish: psoriaasi, psoriasis
• → German: Psoriasis
• → French: psoriasis
• → Italian: psoriasi
• → New Latin: psōriāsis
• → Norwegian Bokmål: psoriasis
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: psoriasis
• → Portuguese: psoríase
• → Romanian: psoriazis
• → Russian: псориа́з (psoriáz)
• → Spanish: psoriasis
• → Swedish: psoriasis
• → Tagalog: soryasis
• → Ukrainian: псоріа́з (psoriáz)

Further reading

• ψωρίασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ψωρίασις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ψωρίασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press