coryza

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɑɪ̯.zə/

Noun

coryza (countable and uncountable, plural coryzas or coryzae or coryzæ)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
   • 1949, Robert Scott Stevenson, Douglas Guthrie, A History of Oto-laryngology:

     In his writing on coryza, Celsus repeats the belief of Hippocrates that some cases of phthisis owe their origin to catarrh of the nasal passages; so far as coryza is concerned, he says, there is nothing pestiferous about it unless it ulcerates  […]

   • 1964, Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism:

     Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza, during the day (second day),⁴.^[sic]—Obstruction of left nostril, in evening […] After pain in the head, which continued ten days, coryza, sore throat, and extension to bronchial mucous membranes […]

   • 1971, Edwin Burton Levine, Hippocrates:

     Sore throat and coryza (cold) in the very aged do not exhibit the phenomena associated with pepsis (apparently, the changes normally occurring in the younger population).

Derived terms

• coryzal

Translations

inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity

• Bulgarian: ринит (rinit), тежка хрема (težka hrema)
• French: coryza (fr) m
• Italian: coriza f
• Portuguese: coriza (pt) f

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

coryza m (plural coryzas)

1. coryza

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈryːz.za/, [kɔˈryːz̪d̪͡z̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrid.d͡za/, [koˈrid̪ː͡z̪ä]

Noun

corȳza f (genitive corȳzae); first declension

1. catarrh

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corȳza	corȳzae
Genitive	corȳzae	corȳzārum
Dative	corȳzae	corȳzīs
Accusative	corȳzam	corȳzās
Ablative	corȳzā	corȳzīs
Vocative	corȳza	corȳzae

References

• “coryza”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coryza in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.