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Etymology
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From New Latin syphilis , originally the title of a poem by Girolamo Fracastoro concerning “Syphilus”, a shepherd boy who insulted the Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease.
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ˈsɪfɪlɪs/
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syphilis (uncountable )
( pathology ) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum .
Synonyms: ( dated ) Cupid's disease , ( obsolete ) great-pox , ( dated ) French disease , French gout , French pox , ladies' fever , leprosy , lues , lues venerea , syph
Hypernyms: STD , VD
Coordinate terms: clap , gonorrhea
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Translations
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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
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 )
Koyraboro Senni: masar
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: agire (ku) f
Latvian: sifiliss m
Malay: penyakit raja singa
Maori: pākewakewa , mate pākewakewa
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тэмбүү (mn) ( tembüü )
Mongolian: 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 )
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 )
Volapük: süfilid
Yapese: baaydook
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Etymology
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First used in 1530 by Girolamo Fracastoro , from the name of a mythical first sufferer of the disease, Syphilus.
syphilis f (genitive syphilidis ) ; third declension
( New Latin , pathology ) syphilis
Declension
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Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
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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