scabies

From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb).

• IPA^(key): /ˈskeɪ.biz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪbiz
• Rhymes: -eɪbiːz

scabies (uncountable)

1. (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

   • 1889, T. H. Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century‎^[1]:

     Further, just as the discovery of the cause of scabies proved the absurdity of many of the old prescriptions for the prevention and treatment of that disease; so the discovery of the cause of splenic fever, and other such maladies, has given a new direction to prophylactic and curative measures against the worst scourges of humanity.

• scab
• scabrous

• abscise, ecbasis

From scabō (“scratch, scrape”) +‎ -iēs.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈska.bi.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskaː.bi.es]

scabiēs f (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension

1. roughness, scurf
2. mildew
3. scab, mange, itch
4. (figuratively) itching, longing, pruriency

Fifth-declension noun.

• scabidus
• scabiola
• scabiōsus
• scabitūdō

• scaber
• scabō
• scobis

• Albanian: zgjebe
• Aromanian: zgaibã
• Italian: scabbia
• Romanian: zgaibă

• “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.