icterus

From the Latin icterus, from the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”).

icterus (usually uncountable, plural icteruses)

1. (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice.
2. A yellowish appearance in plants.

• crustie, curiets, curites, curse it

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪk.tɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈik.t̪e.rus]

icterus m (genitive icterī); second declension

1. a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure jaundice; perhaps loriot, golden oriole

• The Latin word that translates the English words jaundice and icterus is aurūgō.

Second-declension noun.

• icteriās
• ictericus

• English: icterus
• German: Ikterus
• Translingual: Icterus

• “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.