syphilis

See also: Syphilis

English

Alternative forms

• syph (slang)

Etymology

From New Latin syphilis, originally the title of a poem, circa 1530, by Girolamo Fracastoro concerning “Syphilus”, a shepherd boy who insulted the Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease. Syphilis in the Old World began circa 1495. More in Wikipedia at History of syphilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪfɪlɪs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (uncommon) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪflɪs/

Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

2. (pathology) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:syphilis

   • 1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli):

     I saw a film the other day about syphilis. Ugh! It was too awful. I couldn't let a man touch me for a week. Is it true you can get it from kissing?

Derived terms

• antisyphilis
• myelosyphilis
• neurosyphilis
• oculosyphilis
• otosyphilis
• parasyphilis
• sympathy is between shit and syphilis
• syphilitic
• syphilize
• syphiloid

Translations

sexual disease caused by Treponema pallidum

• Arabic: زُهَرِيّ (zuhariyy), مَرَض فِرَنْجِيّ (maraḍ firanjiyy), اَلاِفْرَنْجِيّ (al-ifranjiyy)
• Arikara: čeeníwiš
• Assiniboine: ceȟníbi
• Bulgarian: сифилис m (sifilis)
• Catalan: sífilis m
• Chichewa: chindoko
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 梅毒 (zh) (méidú)

• Czech: syfilis f, příjice (cs) f
• Danish: syfilis c
• Dhivehi: ސިފިލިސް (sifilis)
• Dutch: syfilis (nl) f, lues (nl) f, harde sjanker m
• Esperanto: sifiliso
• Estonian: süüfilis
• Faroese: fransósir f pl, syfilis n
• Finnish: syfilis (fi), kuppa (fi)
• French: syphilis (fr) f
• Galician: gálico (gl) m, lúes (gl) f, morbo gálico (gl) m, sífilis (gl) f
• German: Syphilis (de) f
• Greek: σύφιλη (el) f (sýfili)
• Greenlandic: niviarsiapilunneq, syfilisi
• Hawaiian: kaokao
• Hebrew: עַגֶּבֶת (he) m ('agévet)
• Hindi: उपदंश (hi) (updañś)
• Hungarian: szifilisz (hu)
• Icelandic: sárasótt (is) f
• Indonesian: raja singa (id), sifilis (id), lues (id)
• Interlingua: syphilis
• Irish: bolgach fhrancach f
• Italian: sifilide (it) f, lue (it) f
• Japanese: 梅毒 (ja) (ばいどく, baidoku), ジフィリス (shifirisu), 唐瘡 (karagasa)
• Kalmyk: мерәсн (meräsn)
• Kazakh: мерез (merez)
• Korean: 매독(梅毒) (ko) (maedok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: agire (ku) f

• Latvian: sifiliss m
• Malay: penyakit raja singa
• Māori: pākewakewa, mate pākewakewa
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тэмбүү (mn) (tembüü)

  Mongolian script: ᠲᠡᠮᠪᠦᠦ (tembüü)

• Nandi: takan
• Navajo: cháchʼosh
• Niuean: kafukula
• Norman: chancre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syfilis m

  Nynorsk: syfilis m

• Polish: kiła (pl) m, syfilis (pl) m, franca (pl) f, przymiot (pl) m, lues (pl) m
• Portuguese: sífilis (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਆਤਸ਼ਕ (pa) f (ātaśak)
• Quechua: wanthi unquy
• Romanian: sifilis (ro) n
• Russian: си́филис (ru) m (sífilis), сифо́н (ru) m (sifón), генера́л (ru) m (generál)
• Senni:

  Koyraboro Senni: masar

• Slovak: syfilis (sk) m
• Spanish: sífilis (es) f, gálico (es)
• Swahili: kaswende (sw)
• Swedish: syfilis (sv)
• Tibetan: སེ་མོག (se mog), རྒྱ་ནད (rgya nad)
• Turkish: frengi (tr), sifilis (tr)
• Tuvan: паш (paş)
• Urdu: آتشک (ur) f (ātiśak)
• Vietnamese: giang mai (vi)
• Volapük: süfilid
• Yapese: baaydook

See also

• luetic

Further reading

• syphilis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.fi.lis/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

syphilis f (invariable)

1. syphilis

Further reading

• “syphilis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Interlingua

Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

1. syphilis

Latin

Etymology

First used in 1530 by Girolamo Fracastoro, from the name of a mythical first sufferer of the disease, Syphilus.

Noun

syphilis f (genitive syphilidis); third declension

1. (New Latin, pathology) syphilis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	syphilis	syphilidēs
genitive	syphilidis	syphilidum
dative	syphilidī	syphilidibus
accusative	syphilidem	syphilidēs
ablative	syphilide	syphilidibus
vocative	syphilis	syphilidēs

Synonyms

• luēs, luēs venerea, pudendagra, morbus Gallicus, scabiēs Gallica, morbus Neapolītānus, morbus Hispānicus, scabiēs Hispānica, morbus Indicus, morbus Ītalus, morbus Ītalicus, luēs Hispānica, luēs Gallica, luēs Neapolītāna