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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ).piz/

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• (General American) 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
• herpetology (“the branch of biology dealing with reptiles and amphibians”)

Translations

viral disease

• Arabic: هِرْبِس‎ m (hirbis)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: herpe m
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• 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)

  Ancient: ἕρπης m (hérpēs)

• Greenlandic: herpes
• Hebrew: הֶרְפֶּס‎ (he) m (hérpes), שַׁלְבֶּקֶת‎ (he) f (shalbéqet)
• Hungarian: herpesz (hu)
• Japanese: 疱疹 (ja) (ほうしん, hōshin)

• Kashubian: òpriszczka f
• Kazakh: ұшық (uşıq), теміреткі (temiretki)
• Korean: 포진(疱疹) (ko) (pojin)
• Maori: pāpaka
• Norman: hèrpies m pl (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: herpes (no) m

  Nynorsk: herpes m

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

  Cyrillic: херпес m

  Roman: herpes (sh) m

• Slovincian: òpriszcz m
• Spanish: herpes (es) m or f, herpe m or f
• Swahili: tego (sw)
• Tagalog: sakit-ahas
• Thai: เริม (th) (rəəm)
• Turkish: uçuk (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• -sphere, Hesper, pesher, pheers, sphere

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Asturian

Noun

herpes

1. plural of herpe

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Catalan

Noun

herpes m (plural herpes)

1. herpes

Derived terms

• herpes zòster

Further reading

• “herpes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “herpes”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “herpes” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “herpes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrpɛs]

Noun

herpes m inan

1. herpes

   Synonym: opar

Further reading

• herpes in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• herpes in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Noun

herpes

1. herpes

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English herpes), ultimately from Latin herpēs.

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		—	—

Possessive forms of herpes (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	herpekseni	herpeksemme
2nd person	herpeksesi	herpeksenne
3rd person	herpeksensä

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/, [ˈhɛrpeːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.pes/, [ˈɛrpes]

Noun

herpēs m (genitive herpētis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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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Romanian

Etymology

From French herpès, from Latin herpes.

Noun

herpes n (plural herpesuri)

1. herpes

Declension

Declension of herpes

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) herpes	herpesul	(niște) herpesuri	herpesurile
genitive/dative	(unui) herpes	herpesului	(unor) herpesuri	herpesurilor
vocative	herpesule		herpesurilor

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Spanish

Noun

herpes m or f (plural herpes)

1. herpes
2. cold sore

Further reading

• “herpes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014