different between leper vs mesel

English

Etymology

From Middle English lepre, leprosy, from Old French [Term?], from Latin leprae, lepra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lépra).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

leper (plural lepers, feminine lepress)

1. A person who has leprosy.
2. A person who is shunned; a pariah.

Derived terms

• leper colony

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “leper”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• leper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Epler, Lepre, repel

English

Alternative forms

• mesell, mysel

Etymology

From Middle English mesel, from Old French mesel, from Latin misellus (“leper”), from Latin miser (“wretched”). Compare measles.

Adjective

mesel (comparative more mesel, superlative most mesel)

1. (obsolete) Having leprosy; leprous. [14th-17th c.]

Anagrams

• LEEMs, lemes, meles

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French mesel, from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from Latin miser (“wretched”).

Noun

mesel (plural mesels)

1. A leper. [14th-16th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     For she is […] As comune as a cartwey · to eche a knaue þat walketh / To monkes to mynstralles · to meseles in hegges.

2. A wretched or revolting person. [14th-16th c.]
   • 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Isaiah LIII:

     Verily he suffride oure sikenesses, and he bar oure sorewis; and we arettiden him as a mysel and smytun of God and maad low.

3. Leprosy. [15th-16th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

     So hit befelle many yerys agone there happened on her a malodye, and whan she had lyene a grete whyle she felle unto a mesell, and no leche cowde remedye her [...].

Descendants

• English: measle, mesel

Old French

Etymology

From Latin misellus.

Noun

mesel m (oblique plural meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative singular meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative plural mesel)

1. leper

Descendants

• ? Middle English: mesel
  • English: measle, mesel