pruritus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prūrītus (“itch, itching”), from prūriō (“itch”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pro͞o-rīʹtəs, IPA^(key): /pɹuːˈɹaɪtəs/

Noun

pruritus (usually uncountable, plural prurituses)

1. (medicine) Itching; especially, severe itching of undamaged skin; caused by allergy, infection, lymphoma etc.
   • 2018, AbbVie, "FDA Grants AbbVie's Upadacitinib Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Atopic Dermatitis", Drug Discovery & Development

     Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, is characterized by skin erosion, oozing and crusting, redness, intense itching (pruritus) and dry skin.

Derived terms

• pruritic
• pruritus ani
• pruritogenic
• pruritogen

Ido

Verb

pruritus

1. conditional of pruritar

Latin

Etymology

From prūriō (“itch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pruːˈriː.tus/, [pruːˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pruˈri.tus/, [pruˈriːt̪us]

Noun

prūrītus m (genitive prūrītūs); fourth declension

1. an itching, itch

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prūrītus	prūrītūs
Genitive	prūrītūs	prūrītuum
Dative	prūrītuī	prūrītibus
Accusative	prūrītum	prūrītūs
Ablative	prūrītū	prūrītibus
Vocative	prūrītus	prūrītūs

Derived terms

• prūrītīvus

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: prurit
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: prurito
  • Sicilian: chiuritu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: proído, proício, prurito
  • Portuguese: prurido, pruído
  • Spanish: prurito
• Borrowings:
  • → English: pruritus
  • → Ido: prurito

References

• “pruritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pruritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.