scabies

English

scabies of the hand

Etymology

From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskeɪ.biz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪbiz
• Rhymes: -eɪbiːz

Noun

scabies (uncountable)

1. (pathology) An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur.

   Synonym: (obsolete) leprosy

   Coordinate term: (in animals) mange

   • 1889, T. H. Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century‎^[1]:

     Further, just as the discovery of the cause of scabies proved the absurdity of many of the old prescriptions for the prevention and treatment of that disease; so the discovery of the cause of splenic fever, and other such maladies, has given a new direction to prophylactic and curative measures against the worst scourges of humanity.

Derived terms

• antiscabies
• scabicide

Related terms

• scab
• scabrous

Translations

an infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei

• Albanian: zgjebe (sq) f
• Arabic: جَرَب (ar) m (jarab)
• Armenian: քոս (hy) (kʻos)
• Aromanian: arãnji f, arãnje f, rãnji f, rãnje f, zgaibã f
• Azerbaijani: qotur, qoturluq
• Belarusian: каро́ста f (karósta)
• Bulgarian: кра́ста (bg) f (krásta)
• Catalan: ronya (ca) f, sarna (ca) f
• Chichewa: mphere
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疥瘡 / 疥疮 (zh) (jièchuāng)

• Czech: svrab (cs) m
• Danish: fnat (da)
• Dutch: schurft (nl)
• Esperanto: skabio
• Finnish: syyhy (fi)
• French: gale (fr) f, mal de Sainte-Marie m
• Galician: raña (gl) f, gafeira f, estiza f, comechume f, caracha f, sarna (gl) f
• German: Krätze (de) f, (medical parlance) Skabies f, (in animals) Räude (de) f
• Greek: ψώρα (el) f (psóra)

  Ancient Greek: ψώρᾱ f (psṓrā)

• Hebrew: גרדת (he) f (garedet)
• Hindi: खाज (hi) f (khāj)
• Hungarian: rüh (hu), rühesség (hu)
• Icelandic: maurakláði m
• Ilocano: gaddil
• Indonesian: kudis (id), skabies
• Ingrian: karsta
• Italian: rogna (it) f, scabbia (it) f (medical)
• Japanese: 疥癬 (ja) (かいせん, kaisen), 皮癬 (ja) (ひぜん, hizen)
• Kazakh: қотыр (qotır)
• Korean: 옴 (om)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەڕی (gerrî), گەڕۆڵی (gerrollî)

  Northern Kurdish: gur (ku) f

• Ladin: ronia f
• Latin: scabiēs f
• Luxembourgish: Krätz
• Macedonian: шуга f (šuga)
• Māori: waihakihaki, hakihaki, harehare
• Marathi: खरुज (kharuj)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хамуу (mn) (xamuu)

  Mongolian script: ᠬᠠᠮᠠᠭᠤ (qamaɣu)

• Norman: rouongne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fnatt n, skabb m, reveskabb m (in animals)

• Occitan: ronha (oc) f
• Old Norse: skabb n
• Persian: گری (fa) (gari)
• Polish: świerzb (pl) m
• Portuguese: sarna (pt) f
• Quechua: garaca
• Romanian: râie (ro) f, scabie (ro) f
• Russian: чесо́тка (ru) f (česótka), (rare) ска́биес m (skábijes), коро́ста (ru) f (korósta) (scabs from scabies)
• Sardinian: arrúngia, rúngia, orrúngia, runza
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свра̑б m

  Latin: svrȃb (sh) m

• Slovak: svrab (sk) m
• Slovene: gárje (sl) f pl, rúša f
• Southern Altai: кодур (kodur), јел курты (ǰel kurtï)
• Spanish: sarna (es) f
• Swahili: upele (sw)
• Swedish: skabb (sv)
• Tagalog: galis
• Tamil: சொறி (ta) (coṟi), சொறிசிரங்கு (ta) (coṟiciraṅku)
• Thai: หิด (th) (hìt)
• Turkish: uyuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: коро́ста (uk) f (korósta)
• Venetan: rogna (vec) f, gratoxa f
• Vietnamese: ghẻ (vi)

Anagrams

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Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin scabō

Proto-Italic *-jēs

Latin -iēs

Latin scabiēs

From scabō (“scratch, scrape”) + -iēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈska.bi.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskaː.bi.es]

Noun

scabiēs f (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension

1. roughness, scurf
2. mildew
3. scab, mange, itch
4. (figuratively) itching, longing, pruriency

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scabiēs	scabiēs
genitive	scabiēī	scabiērum
dative	scabiēī	scabiēbus
accusative	scabiem	scabiēs
ablative	scabiē	scabiēbus
vocative	scabiēs	scabiēs

Derived terms

• scabidus
• scabiola
• scabiōsus
• scabitūdō

Related terms

• scaber
• scabō
• scobis

Descendants

• Albanian: zgjebe
• Aromanian: zgaibã
• Italian: scabbia
• Romanian: zgaibă

Learned borrowings:

• English: scabies
• German: Skabies
• Romanian: scabie
• Russian: ска́биес (skábijes)

References

• “scabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scabies”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.