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From Latin herpēs, from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs, “herpes”, literally “a creeping”), from ἕρπειν (hérpein, “to creep”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ).piz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɚ.piz/

herpes (countable and uncountable, plural herpeses)

1. (medicine) A viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or in the mucous membranes or on the genitals.
   • 2017 June 24, Arti Patel, “Dating with an STI: 7 ways to navigate the (often harsh) dating world”, in Global News‎^[1]:

     This, of course, is something only people with that STI would know. For example, herpes is 437737.

• herpes simplex; Human herpesvirus 1, Human herpesvirus 2,

• herpes simplex
• herpes zoster

• herpetology (“the branch of biology dealing with reptiles and amphibians”)

• “herpes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “herpes”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “herpes”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• -sphere, Hesper, pesher, pheers, sphere

herpes

1. plural of herpe

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɛr.pəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈeɾ.pes]

herpes m (invariable)

1. herpes

• herpes zòster

• “herpes”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “herpes”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “herpes” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “herpes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrpɛs]

herpes m inan

1. herpes

   Synonym: opar

• “herpes”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “herpes”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “herpes”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

herpes

1. herpes

Internationalism (see English herpes), ultimately from Latin herpēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈherpes/, [ˈhe̞rpe̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -erpes
• Syllabification^(key): her‧pes
• Hyphenation^(key): her‧pes

herpes

1. herpes (common language term for herpes simplex)

• “herpes”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from Danish herpes.

herpes

1. herpes
   • 1992, Erik Münster (quoting anonymous), "Kinguaassiuutikkut nappaataava", Atuagagdliutit

     Pasipiluppara kinguaassiuutitigut nappaat herpes pineqarsoralugu, tassami pineqartumut receptimi allassimammat tarnut Zovirax.

     I strongly suspect the patient has the sexually transmitted disease of herpes, as they were prescribed Zovirax cream.

Learned borrowing from Latin herpēs, from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs, “herpes”, literally “a creeping”), ἕρπειν (hérpein, “to creep”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛrpɛs/ [ˈhɛr.pɛs]
• Rhymes: -ɛrpɛs
• Syllabification: her‧pes

herpes (plural herpes-herpes)

1. (medicine) herpes: a viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or in the mucous membranes or on the genitals.

• “herpes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs, “herpes”, literally “a creeping”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛr.pes/

herpes m

1. herpes

• (rare) erpete

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɛr.peːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛr.pes]

herpēs m (genitive herpētis); third declension

1. herpes
2. an unknown sort of animal, perhaps a kind of mongoose

Third-declension noun.

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

• Hyphenation: her‧pes

herpes m or f (invariable)

1. (medicine) herpes (viral disease)

Borrowed from French herpès, from Latin herpes.

herpes n (plural herpesuri)

1. herpes

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾpes/ [ˈeɾ.pes]
• Rhymes: -eɾpes
• Syllabification: her‧pes

herpes m (plural herpes)

1. herpes
2. cold sore

   Synonym: calentura

• “herpes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

herpes c

1. herpes

• herpes in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• herpes in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• herpes in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)