herpes

See also: Herpes and herpès

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin herpes, from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs, “herpes; literally, a creeping”), from ἕρπειν (hérpein, “to creep”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝ.piz/

Noun

herpes (plural herpeses)

1. (medicine) A viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals.

Synonyms

• herpes simplex; Human herpesvirus 1, Human herpesvirus 2,

Related terms

• herpes zoster

Translations

viral disease

• Arabic: هِرْبِس‎‎ m (hirbis)
• Asturian: herpe m
• Catalan: herpes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皰疹 (zh), 疱疹 (zh) (pàozhěn)

• Czech: opar (cs) m
• Danish: herpes
• Esperanto: herpeto
• Finnish: herpes (fi)
• French: herpès (fr) m
• Galician: herpes m
• German: Herpes (de) m
• Greek: έρπης (el) m (érpis)
• Greenlandic: herpes
• Hebrew: הֶרְפֶּס‎‎ (he) m (hérpes), שַׁלְבֶּקֶת‎‎ (he) f (shalbéqet)
• Japanese: 疱疹 (ja) (ほうしん, hōshin)

• Korean: 포진 (ko) (pojin) (疱疹)
• Maori: pāpaka
• Norman: hèrpies m pl (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: herpes (no) m

  Nynorsk: herpes m

• Polish: opryszczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: herpes (pt) m, f
• Russian: ге́рпес (ru) m (gérpes), лиша́й (ru) m (lišáj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: херпес m

  Roman: herpes (sh) m

• Spanish: herpes (es) m, f, herpe m, f
• Swahili: tego (sw)
• Tagalog: sakit-ahas

Further reading

• herpes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• herpes in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• herpes at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• -sphere, Hesper, pesher, pheers, sphere

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Czech

Noun

herpes m

1. herpes

Synonyms

• opar m

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Danish

Noun

herpes

1. herpes

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Finnish

Noun

herpes

1. (pathology) herpes (common language term for herpes simplex)

Declension

Inflection of herpes (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		herpes	—
genitive		herpeksen	—
partitive		herpestä	—
illative		herpekseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		herpes	—
accusative	nom.	herpes	—
	gen.	herpeksen
genitive		herpeksen	—
partitive		herpestä	—
inessive		herpeksessä	—
elative		herpeksestä	—
illative		herpekseen	—
adessive		herpeksellä	—
ablative		herpekseltä	—
allative		herpekselle	—
essive		herpeksenä	—
translative		herpekseksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		herpeksettä	—
comitative		—	—

Derived terms

• huuliherpes
• sukuelinherpes

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Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish herpes.

Noun

herpes

1. herpes
   • 1992, Erik Münster (quoting anonymous), "Kinguaassiuutikkut nappaataava", Atuagagdliutit

     Pasipiluppara kinguaassiuutitigut nappaat herpes pineqarsoralugu, tassami pineqartumut receptimi allassimammat tarnut Zovirax.

     I strongly suspect that the person in question has the venereal disease of herpes, for a prescription for Zovirax cream was written to the person in question.

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈher.peːs/, [ˈhɛr.peːs]

Noun

herpēs m (genitive herpētis); third declension

1. herpes
2. an unknown sort of animal, perhaps a kind of mongoose

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	herpēs	herpētēs
Genitive	herpētis	herpētum
Dative	herpētī	herpētibus
Accusative	herpētem	herpētēs
Ablative	herpēte	herpētibus
Vocative	herpēs	herpētēs

References

• herpes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• herpes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Noun

herpes m or f (in variation) (plural herpes)

1. (medicine) herpes (viral disease)

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Spanish

Noun

herpes m, f (plural herpes)

1. herpes