jaundice

English

Etymology

From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɔndɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɔːndɪs/

Noun

jaundice (countable and uncountable, plural jaundices)

1. (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine. [from early 14th c.]

   Synonym: icterus

   • 2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO (→ISBN), page 215:

     In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).

   • 2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books (→ISBN), page 8:

     Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?

2. (figurative) A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy. [from 1620s]
   • 1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes:

     But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!

Derived terms

• black jaundice
• blue jaundice

Translations

morbid condition

• Arabic: صُفَار m (ṣufār), يَرَقَان m (yaraqān)
• Armenian: դեղնախտ (hy) (deġnaxt)
• Aromanian: gãlbinari f
• Assamese: কুহুমসাৰ (kuhumxar)
• Asturian: jaldía f (Montañés)
• Azerbaijani: sarılıq
• Belarusian: жаўтуха f (žaŭtuxa)
• Bulgarian: жълтеница (bg) f (žǎltenica)
• Burmese: အသားဝါရောဂါ (my) (a.sa:warau:ga)
• Catalan: icterícia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃疸／黄疸 (zh) (huángdǎn), 黄疸 (zh) (huángdǎn), 黃疸病／黄疸病 (zh) (huángdǎnbìng), 黄疸病 (zh) (huángdǎnbìng)

• Czech: žloutenka (cs) f
• Danish: gulsot
• Dutch: geelzucht (nl) f
• Esperanto: iktero
• Finnish: keltaisuus (fi), keltatauti (fi), ikterus (fi)
• French: jaunisse (fr) f
• Georgian: დანდალუკი (dandaluḳi)
• German: Gelbsucht (de) f, Ikterus (de) f
• Greek: ίκτερος (el) (íkteros)

  Ancient: ἴκτερος m (íkteros)

• Hebrew: צהבת (he) (tzahevet)
• Hindi: पीलिया (hi) m (pīliyā)
• Hungarian: sárgaság (hu)
• Icelandic: gula (is) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: itterizia (it) f, ittero (it) m
• Japanese: 黄疸 (おうだん, ōdan)
• Latin: aurūgō f
• Lezgi: саралух (saraluχ)
• Luxembourgish: Gielzecht f
• Macedonian: жолтица f (žoltica)
• Maori: mate kōwhai
• Polish: żółtaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: icterícia (pt) f
• Romanian: gălbinare (ro), gălbenare (ro), icter (ro)
• Russian: желту́ха (ru) f (želtúxa)
• Sanskrit: पाण्डु (sa) m (pāṇḍu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жутица f

  Roman: žutica (sh) f

• Slovak: žltačka (sk) f
• Slovene: zlatenica f
• Spanish: ictericia (es) f
• Swedish: gulsot (sv), ikterus (sv)
• Tagalog: pamumunglo
• Telugu: కామెర్లు (te) (kāmerlu)
• Turkish: sarılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: жовтяниця f (žovtjanycja)
• Vilamovian: gaołzyft
• Zazaki: zerdani

See also

• cyanopathy

Verb

1. (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. [from 1791]
   • Lord Lytton

     The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.

Translations

affect with jaundice; prejudice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: groen en geel worden van nijd of afgunst over
• Finnish: sairastaa keltatautia (to be affected by jaundice); mennä vihreäksi kateudesta (to turn green due to envy)
• French: en faire une jaunisse
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: sich verfärben, rot anlaufen
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: mamunglo
• Thai: ดีซ่าน (dii-sâan)
• Zazaki: zerdani veten

Further reading

• jaundice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia