urticaria

See also: urticária and urticària

English

male person displaying cholinergic urticaria on the volar aspect of the forearm

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɝ.tɪˈkɛɹ.i.ə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɜː.tɪˈkɛə.ɹi.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiə

Noun

urticaria (countable and uncountable, plural urticarias)

1. (pathology) Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "And the cramps when my body - like a badly articulated skeleton - would all get twisted into one rigid tangle! But now, except some dyspepsia and urticaria of the palms, I am free from pain."

   • 2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.

Synonyms

• hives
• nettle-rash

Derived terms

• cold urticaria
• urticaria-deafness-amyloidosis syndrome

 

Translations

medical condition

• Armenian: եղնջացան (eġnǰacʻan)
• Azerbaijani: qurdeşənəyi, övrə
• Bulgarian: копривна треска f (koprivna treska), уртикария f (urtikarija)
• Catalan: urticària f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蕁麻疹／荨麻疹 (zh) (xúnmázhěn)

• Czech: kopřivka (cs) f, urtikarie f
• Danish: nældefeber (da) c
• Dutch: netelroos (nl), galbulten (nl), urticaria (nl)
• Faroese: notusótt f
• Finnish: nokkosihottuma (fi), urtikaria (fi)
• French: urticaire (fr) f
• German: Urticaria f, Nesselsucht f
• Gujarati: શીતપિત્ત (śītpitt)
• Hungarian: csalánkiütés (hu)
• Irish: urtacáire f
• Italian: orticaria (it) f
• Japanese: 蕁麻疹 (ja) (じんましん, jinmashin)
• Khmer: កន្ទាលត្រអាក (km) (kɑntiəl trɑʼaak)
• Korean: 두드러기 (ko) (dudeureogi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: чонон хөрвөс (čonon xörvös)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠨᠤᠨ
  ᠬᠥᠷᠪᠡᠰ (činun körbes)

• Norman: feu ortcheux m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: elveblest (no) m

• Ottoman Turkish: قورداشنی (kurdeşeni)
• Persian: کهیر (fa) (kahir), بشترم (fa) (boštaram)
• Polish: pokrzywka (pl) f
• Portuguese: urticária (pt) f
• Romanian: urticarie (ro) f, blândă (ro) f (poplar)
• Russian: крапи́вница (ru) f (krapívnica), крапи́вная сыпь (ru) (krapívnaja sypʹ), крапи́вная лихора́дка (ru) (krapívnaja lixorádka)
• Slovak: žihľavka f, urtikária f
• Slovene: koprivnica f, urtikarija f
• Spanish: urticaria (es) f
• Tagalog: tagulabay
• Telugu: కుక్కముండ్లు (te) (kukkamuṇḍlu)
• Thai: ลมพิษ (th) (lom-pít)
• Turkish: ürtiker (tr), kurdeşen (tr)
• Vietnamese: mề đay (vi), phong ngứa

Latin

Etymology

From ū̆rtīca +‎ -āria.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uːr.tiːˈkaː.ri.a/, [uːrt̪iːˈkäːriä] or IPA^(key): /ur.tiːˈkaː.ri.a/, [ʊrt̪iːˈkäːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ur.tiˈka.ri.a/, [urt̪iˈkäːriä]

Noun

ū̆rtīcāria f (genitive ū̆rtīcāriae); first declension

1. (New Latin) urticaria

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ū̆rtīcāria	ū̆rtīcāriae
Genitive	ū̆rtīcāriae	ū̆rtīcāriārum
Dative	ū̆rtīcāriae	ū̆rtīcāriīs
Accusative	ū̆rtīcāriam	ū̆rtīcāriās
Ablative	ū̆rtīcāriā	ū̆rtīcāriīs
Vocative	ū̆rtīcāria	ū̆rtīcāriae

Descendants

• → Catalan: urticària
• → English: urticaria
• → French: urticaire
  • → Romanian: urticarie
• → Italian: orticaria
• → Portuguese: urticária
• → Spanish: urticaria

Portuguese

Verb

urticaria

1. first/third-person singular conditional of urticar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) +‎ -āria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uɾtiˈkaɾja/ [uɾ.t̪iˈka.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: ur‧ti‧ca‧ria

Noun

urticaria f (plural urticarias)

1. urticaria

Further reading

• “urticaria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014