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disease
English
Alternative forms
- (uneasiness): dis-ease
Etymology
From Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Equivalent to dis- +? ease. Displaced native Middle English adle, audle (“disease”) (from Old English ?dl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), Middle English cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from Old English coþu (“disease”), see coath).
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?-z?z? IPA(key): /d??zi?z/
- Rhymes: -i?z
Noun
disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)
- (pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
- The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; [...]
- November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10
- (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
- War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
- Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:disease
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)
- (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
- To infect with a disease.
Anagrams
- Seaside, seaside
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chancre
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æ?.k?/
- Rhymes: -æ?k?(?)
Noun
chancre (plural chancres)
- (pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
Derived terms
- soft chancre
Related terms
- canker
Translations
Anagrams
- chancer
French
Etymology
From Middle French chancre, from Old French chancre, inherited from Latin cancer, cancrum, from Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of cancer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k?/
Noun
chancre m (plural chancres)
- (obsolete) lobster, crab
- (medicine) canker, chancre
Related terms
- cancer
- cancre
Descendants
- ? English: chancre
Further reading
- “chancre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer, cancrum.
Noun
chancre m (plural chancres)
- cancer (cancerous cell mutation)
Descendants
- French: chancre
- ? English: chancre
- Norman: chancre
Norman
Etymology
From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer.
Noun
chancre m (plural chancres)
- (Jersey, pathology) tumour, verruca; syphilis
- (Jersey) Guernsey crab
Synonyms
- (Guernsey crab): houais
Derived terms
- chancreux (“cancerous”)
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