herpes

See also: Herpes and herpès

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝ.piz/

Noun

herpes (plural herpeses)

1. (medicine) A viral infection, caused by the Herpes simplex virus, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals.

Synonyms

• herpes simplex

Related terms

• herpes zoster

Translations

viral disease

• Arabic: هربس m (hírbis)
• Asturian: herpe m
• Catalan: herpes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皰疹, 疱疹 (zh) (pàozhěn)

• Czech: opar m
• Esperanto: herpeto
• Finnish: herpes (fi)
• French: herpès (fr) m
• Galician: herpes m
• German: Herpes (de) m
• Greek: έρπης (el) m (érpis)

• Japanese: 疱疹 (ほうしん, hōshin)
• Korean: 포진 (ko) (pojin) (疱疹)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: herpes (no) m

  Nynorsk: herpes m

• Portuguese: herpes (pt) m, f
• Russian: герпес (ru) m (gérpes), лишай (ru) m (lišáj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: херпес m

  Roman: herpes m

• Spanish: herpes m, f, herpe m, f
• Swahili: tego (sw)

External links

• 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

• Hesper
• sphere

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Czech

Noun

herpes ?

1. herpes

Synonyms

• opar m

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Finnish

Noun

herpes

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

Declension

Declension of herpes (Kotus type 39/vastaus)

	singular	plural
nominative	herpes	—
genitive	herpeksen	—
partitive	herpestä	—
accusative	herpeksen	—
inessive	herpeksessä	—
elative	herpeksestä	—
illative	herpekseen	—
adessive	herpeksellä	—
ablative	herpekseltä	—
allative	herpekselle	—
essive	herpeksenä	—
translative	herpekseksi	—
instructive	—	—
abessive	herpeksettä	—
comitative	—	—

Derived terms

• huuliherpes
• sukuelinherpes