panaricium

Latin

Alternative forms

• panāritium (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Alteration, by analogy with pānus (“tumour”), of earlier parōnychium~parōnychia, from Ancient Greek πᾰρωνῠχῐ́ᾱ (parōnukhíā). First found in this form in the writings of Pseudo-Apuleius.

Noun

panāricium n (genitive panāriciī or panāricī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a disease of the fingernails

Descendants

Forms with unexpected /ˈi/ presumably influenced by descendants of -īcius.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: panareccio, panereccio, panariccio
  • Neapolitan: panaruzzo (Matera), panaroicio (Agnone)
  • Sicilian: pannarizzu
• Western Romance:
  • Catalan: panadís
  • Emilian: panarez
  • Piedmontese: panaris
  • Spanish: panadizo, panarizo
• Borrowings:
  • → English: panaritium
  • → Middle French: panarice
    • French: panaris

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “panarĭcium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 7: N–Pas, page 535

Further reading

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