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/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiz

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.

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
• Catalan: sarna f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疥瘡 (zh), 疥疮 (zh) (jièchuāng)

• Czech: svrab (cs) m
• Danish: fnat (da)
• Dutch: schurft (nl)
• Finnish: syyhy (fi)
• French: gale (fr) f, mal de Sainte-Marie m
• German: Krätze (de) f
• Hebrew: גרדת‎‎ (he) f (garedet)
• Hungarian: rüh (hu)
• Indonesian: kudis (id)
• Italian: (acaro m della) scabbia, rogna (it) f
• Japanese: 疥癬 (ja) (かいせん, kaisen), 皮癬 (ひぜん, hizen)
• Korean: 옴 (om)
• Ladin: ronia f

• Latin: scabiēs f
• Luxembourgish: Krätz
• Maori: waihakihaki, hakihaki, harehare
• Marathi: खरुज (kharuj)
• Norman: rouongne f
• Norwegian: reveskabb
• Old Norse: skabb n
• Polish: świerzb (pl) m
• Portuguese: sarna (pt) f
• Quechua: garaca
• Romanian: scabie (ro), râie (ro)
• Russian: чесо́тка (ru) f (česótka), (rare) ска́биес m (skábijes)
• Sardinian: arrúngia, rúngia, orrúngia, runza
• Spanish: sarna (es) f
• Swahili: upele (sw)
• Swedish: skabb (sv)
• Tagalog: galis
• Venetian: rogna f, gratoxa f
• Vietnamese: ghẻ (vi)

See also

• mange

Anagrams

• abscise, ecbasis

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Latin

Etymology

From scabō (“scratch, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.bi.eːs/

Noun

scabiēs f (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension

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

Inflection

Fifth declension.

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