scabies

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scabies

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): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪbiz
Rhymes: -eɪbiːz

Noun

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.
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.

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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
Belarusian: каро́ста f (karósta)
Bulgarian: кра́ста (bg) f (krásta)
Catalan: ronya (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, 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), 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 (qotyr)
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)
Maori: waihakihaki, hakihaki, harehare
Marathi: खरुज (kharuj)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хамуу (mn) (xamuu)

Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠮᠠᠭᠤ (qamaɣu)
Norman: rouongne f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fnatt n, skabb m, reveskabb m (in animals)
Occitan: ronha (oc) f
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)
Venetan: rogna (vec) f, gratoxa f
Vietnamese: ghẻ (vi)

Anagrams

abscise, ecbasis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

scabiēs f (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension

roughness, scurf
mildew
scab, mange, itch
(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

Related terms

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.