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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scabies (uncountable)
- (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.
- 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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]an infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei
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Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scabō (“scratch, scrape”) + -iēs.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈska.bi.eːs/, [ˈs̠käbieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈska.bi.es/, [ˈskäːbies]
Noun
[edit]scabiēs f (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension
Declension
[edit]Fifth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | scabiēs | scabiēs |
Genitive | scabiēī | scabiērum |
Dative | scabiēī | scabiēbus |
Accusative | scabiem | scabiēs |
Ablative | scabiē | scabiēbus |
Vocative | scabiēs | scabiēs |
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[edit]References
[edit]- “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.
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