different between itching vs scabies

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English ecchinge, ?itchinge, ?icchinde, ?ichande (also unassibilated as yckyng), from Old English ?i??ende (“itching”), from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjandi, present participle of *jukkjan (“to itch”), equivalent to itch +? -ing.

Verb

itching

1. present participle of itch

Etymology 2

From Middle English icchynge, ichynge, ycchenge, yecchyng, ?icchunge (also unassibilated as ?ykynge), equivalent to itch +? -ing.

Noun

itching (plural itchings)

1. A sensation that itches.
   • 1856, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology (page 71)

     Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skei.biz/
• Rhymes: -e?biz

Noun

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.

Related terms

• scab
• scabrous

Translations

See also

• mange

Anagrams

• abscise, ecbasis

Latin

Etymology

From scab? (“scratch, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ska.bi.e?s/, [?s?käbie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ska.bi.es/, [?sk??bi?s]

Noun

scabi?s f (genitive scabi??); fifth declension

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

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• scabidus
• scabiola
• scabi?sus
• scabit?d?

Related terms

• scaber
• scab?
• scobis

Descendants

• Aromanian: zgaibã
• English: scabies
• Italian: scabbia
• Romanian: scabie, zgaib?

References

• 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