different between escarbuncle vs carbuncle

English

Etymology

Old French escharboncle, see Modern French escaboucle.

Noun

escarbuncle (plural escarbuncles)

1. (heraldry) A carbuncle.

English

Etymology

From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carb? (“a coal, charcoal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.b??.kl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???b??.kl?/

Noun

carbuncle (plural carbuncles)

1. (archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
   1. (heraldry) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
2. (pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
3. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

Related terms

• carbon

Translations

References

• “carbuncle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “carbuncle”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• ruby

Middle English

Alternative forms

• carboncle, carbuncul, charbocle, charbokel, charbouncle, charbucle, charbukel, charbuncle, charbunkel

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, itself borrowed from Latin carbunculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?karbunk?l/, /?karbuk?l/, /?t?-/

Noun

carbuncle (plural carbuncles)

1. A carbuncle (garnet or other precious stone)
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Sir Thopas: 179-81.

     His sheeld was al of gold so reed,

     And ther-inne was a bores heed,

     A charbocle bisyde;

2. Material similar to carbuncle.
3. (pathology) A carbuncle; a large abscess.

Descendants

• English: carbuncle

References

• “carbuncle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Alternative forms

• charbuncle

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carbunculus.

Noun

carbuncle m (oblique plural carbuncles, nominative singular carbuncles, nominative plural carbuncle)

1. carbuncle (deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: carbuncle