erysipelas

English

Alternative forms

• erisypelas (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English erisipila, borrowed from Latin erysipelas, from Ancient Greek ἐρῠσῐ́πελᾰς (erusípelas), probably related to ἐρῠθρός (eruthrós, “red”) and πέλμᾰ (pélma, “the sole of a foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛ.ɹɪˈsɪp.ɪl.əs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹ.əˈsɪp.əl.əs/, /ˌɛɹ.əˈsɪp.ləs/, /ˌɪɹ.əˈsɪp.əl.əs/, /ˌɪɹ.əˈsɪp.ləs/

Noun

erysipelas (countable and uncountable, plural erysipelases)

1. (pathology) An acute, sometimes recurrent febrile disease caused by infection of a hemolytic streptococcus, associated with intense edematous local inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, and marked by large raised red patches on the skin.
   • 1875 July 31, W. R. Smith, “Erysipelas During Parturition”, in James G. Wakley, editor, The Lancet, volume II, number 2709, London: John James Croft, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, Notes, Short Comments, and Answers to Correspondents., page 187, column 2:

     The symptoms gradually improved until, on the fifth day from her delivery, I was pleased to find the erysipelas rapidly defervescing, the lochia natural, no subinvolution of the uterus, nor abdominal tenderness.

Derived terms

• antierysipelas
• erysipelatoid
• erysipelatous
• erysipeloid
• pseudoerysipelas

 

Related terms

• erythema

 

Translations

acute febrile disease

• Armenian: կարմիր քամի (karmir kʻami)
• Azerbaijani: qızıl yel xəstəliyi
• Burmese: အနာမီးအနာလျှံ (my) (a.nami:a.nahlyam)
• Catalan: erisipela f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丹毒 (zh) (dāndú)

• Czech: růže (cs) f
• Esperanto: erizipelo
• Finnish: ruusu (fi)
• French: érysipèle (fr) m
• German: Erysipel n, Rotlauf m, Rose (de) f, Wundrose f
• Greek: ερυσίπελας (el) n (erysípelas)

  Ancient: ἐρυσίπελας n (erusípelas)

• Hebrew: שושנה (he)
• Hungarian: orbánc (hu)
• Indonesian: erisipelas (id)
• Irish: arasaipil m, ruachtach f, an rua (ga) f, tine dhia f
• Italian: risipola f
• Japanese: 丹毒 (ja) (たんどく, tandoku)
• Kazakh: тілме (tılme)
• Korean: 단독(丹毒) (ko) (dandok)
• Latin: serpēdo f
• Macedonian: црвен ветер m (crven veter, literally “red wind”)
• Malayalam: എറിസിപ്പെലസ് (eṟisippelasŭ)
• Norman: résipele f (Jersey)
• Ottoman Turkish: ییلانجق (yılancık)
• Persian: ایرزیپلاس
• Polish: róża (pl) f
• Portuguese: erisipela (pt) f
• Romanian: brâncă (ro) f, оrbált n
• Russian: ро́жа (ru) f (róža)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ветар m, црвени ветар m, црвѐница f, јарболац m, врбанац m, брнка f

  Latin: vetar (sh) m, crveni vetar (sh) m, crvènica (sh) f, jarbolac (sh) m, vrbanac (sh) m, brnka (sh) f

• Spanish: erisipela (es) f
• Swedish: rosfeber (sv) c
• Thai: ไฟลามทุ่ง (th) (fai-laam-tûng)
• Turkish: yılancık (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

References

• “erysipelas”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “erysipelas”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐρῠσῐ́πελᾰς (erusípelas), probably related to ἐρῠθρός (eruthrós, “red”) and πέλμᾰ (pélma, “the sole of a foot”) or pellis (“a skin, hide, felt, pelt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /e.ryˈsi.pe.las/, [ɛrʏˈs̠ɪpɛɫ̪äs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.riˈsi.pe.las/, [eriˈs̬iːpeläs]

Noun

erysipelas n (genitive erysipelatos); third declension

1. (pathology) erysipelas

Inflection

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	erysipelas	erysipelata
genitive	erysipelatos	erysipelatum
dative	erysipelatī	erysipelatibus
accusative	erysipelas	erysipelata
ablative	erysipelate	erysipelatibus
vocative	erysipelas	erysipelata

Descendants

• → English: erysipelas
• Middle English: erisipila