icterus

== English == === Etymology === From the Latin icterus, from the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === icterus (usually uncountable, plural icteruses) (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice. A yellowish appearance in plants. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === crustie, curiets, curites, curse it == Latin == === Etymology === From the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”, “a bird of a yellowish-green colour, perhaps the golden oriole”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly related to ἴκτις (íktis, “weasel”), ἴκτινος (íktinos), or of Pre-Greek origin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪk.tɛ.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈik.te.rus] === Noun === icterus m (genitive icterī); second declension a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure jaundice; perhaps loriot, golden oriole ==== Usage notes ==== The Latin word that translates the English words jaundice and icterus is aurūgō. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== icteriās ictericus ==== Descendants ==== English: icterus German: Ikterus Translingual: Icterus === References === “ictĕrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ictĕrus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 765/1.