psora

Learned borrowing from Latin psōra, from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːɹ.ə/

psora (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A cutaneous disease, especially psoriasis, scabies, or mange.

• psoric
• psoriasis
• psorosis

• praos, sapro-, rapso, proas, Paros, sapor, Proas, Poras, rapos, roaps, aspro

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpsoː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpsɔː.ra]

psōra f (genitive psōrae); first declension

1. the itch, mange

   Synonyms: scabiēs, sarna

First-declension noun.

• → English: psora (learned)
• → French: psora, psore (learned)

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

• Hyphenation: pso‧ra

psora f (plural psoras)

1. (Brazil, slang) clipping of professora (“female teacher”)