scabies

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskeɪ.biz/ Rhymes: -eɪbiz Rhymes: -eɪbiːz === Noun === scabies (uncountable) (pathology) An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur. Synonym: (obsolete) leprosy Coordinate term: (in animals) mange ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== scab scabrous ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === abscise, ecbasis == Latin == === Etymology === From scabō (“scratch, scrape”) + -iēs. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈska.bi.eːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskaː.bi.es] === Noun === scabiēs f (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension roughness, scurf mildew scab, mange, itch (figuratively) itching, longing, pruriency ==== Declension ==== Fifth-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== scabidus scabiola scabiōsus scabitūdō ==== Related terms ==== scaber scabō scobis ==== Descendants ==== Albanian: zgjebe Aromanian: zgaibã Italian: scabbia Romanian: zgaibă === References === “scabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scabies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “scabies”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.