different between jaundice vs pallor

English

Etymology

From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??nd?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???nd?s/

Noun

jaundice (countable and uncountable, plural jaundices)

1. (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine. [from early 14th c.]

   Synonym: icterus

   • 2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO (?ISBN), page 215:

     In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).

   • 2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books (?ISBN), page 8:

     Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?

2. (figuratively) A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy. [from 1620s]

Derived terms

• black jaundice
• blue jaundice

Translations

See also

• cyanopathy

Verb

jaundice (third-person singular simple present jaundices, present participle jaundicing, simple past and past participle jaundiced)

1. (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. [from 1791]
   • 1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel

Translations

Further reading

• jaundice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• pallour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palle? (“I am or look pale, blanch”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?/
• Rhymes: -æl?(?)

Noun

pallor (countable and uncountable, plural pallors)

1. Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness.

Translations

Further reading

• pallor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• pallor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Etymology

From palle? (“I am or look pale, blanch”) +? -or, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pal.lor/, [?päl???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pal.lor/, [?p?l??r]

Noun

pallor m (genitive pall?ris); third declension

1. a pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor
2. (by extension) mustiness, moldiness, mildew
3. (by extension) dimness, faintness
4. (by extension) a disagreeable color or shape, unsightliness
5. (figuratively) alarm, terror

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (mildew): r?b?g?
• (paleness): aur?g?

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: pallor
• French: pâleur
• Galician: balor
• Italian: pallore
• Portuguese: bolor, palor
• Spanish: palor

References

• pallor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pallor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pallor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pallor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pallor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pallor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray