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): /ˈskei.biz/

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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.

Related terms

• scab
• scabrous

Translations

an infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei

• Arabic: جَرَب‎ (ar) m (jarab)
• Armenian: քոս (hy) (kʿos)
• Aromanian: arãnji f, arãnje f, rãnji f, rãnje f, zgaibã f
• Belarusian: каро́ста f (karósta)
• Bulgarian: кра́ста (bg) f (krásta)
• Catalan: sarna (ca) f
• Chichewa: mphere
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疥瘡 (zh), 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, sarna (gl) f
• German: Krätze (de) f, Skabies f (medical)
• Hebrew: גרדת‎ (he) f (garedet)
• Hindi: खाज (hi) f (khāj)
• Hungarian: rüh (hu)
• Ilocano: gaddil
• Indonesian: kudis (id)
• Italian: rogna (it) f, scabbia (it) f (medical)
• Japanese: 疥癬 (ja) (かいせん, kaisen), 皮癬 (ひぜん, hizen)
• Kazakh: қотыр (qotyr)
• Korean: 옴 (om)
• Kurdish:

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

  Northern Kurdish: gur (ku) f

• Ladin: ronia f
• Latin: scabiēs f
• Luxembourgish: Krätz
• Maori: waihakihaki, hakihaki, harehare
• Marathi: खरुज (kharuj)
• Norman: rouongne f
• Norwegian:

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

• Old Norse: skabb n
• 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

  Roman: svrȃb (sh) m

• Slovak: svrab (sk) m
• Spanish: sarna (es) f
• Swahili: upele (sw)
• Swedish: skabb (sv)
• Tagalog: galis
• Thai: หิด (th) (hìt)
• Ukrainian: коро́ста (uk) f (korósta)
• Venetian: rogna (vec) f, gratoxa f
• Vietnamese: ghẻ (vi)

Anagrams

• abscise, ecbasis

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.bi.eːs/, [ˈs̠käbieːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.bi.es/, [ˈskäːbies]

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.

Case	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

• Aromanian: zgaibã
• English: scabies
• Italian: scabbia
• Romanian: scabie, zgaibă

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