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English

Etymology

Latin. See leper.

Noun

lepra (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) leprosy
2. A scurfy, mealy substance on the surface of some plants.

Usage notes

• This term was formerly given to various skin diseases, the leprosy of modern authors being Lepra Arabum.

Anagrams

• APLer, Alper, Pearl, paler, parle, pearl, repla

Corsican

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lepra/

Noun

lepra f (plural lepre)

1. Alternative form of levra

References

• “levra, leura, lepra, levura, lefra, levru” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?pra]
• Rhymes: -pra
• Hyphenation: le?p?ra

Noun

lepra f

1. leprosy

Declension

Derived terms

• lepróza
• lepromatózní
• leprosarium
• leprosárium

Anagrams

• perla
• raple

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: le?pra

Noun

lepra m (uncountable)

1. leprosy

Synonyms

• melaatsheid

Anagrams

• parel

Finnish

(index le)

Noun

lepra

1. (medicine) leprosy

Declension

Synonyms

• Hansenin tauti
• spitaali

See also

• spitaalinen

Hungarian

Etymology

From New Latin lepra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lépra, “leprosy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?pr?]
• Hyphenation: lep?ra
• Rhymes: -r?

Adjective

lepra (comparative leprább, superlative legleprább)

1. (slang) stinking (very bad)

Declension

Noun

lepra (plural leprák)

1. leprosy (infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae)

Declension

Derived terms

• leprás

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lepra, ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (lépra, “leprosy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?pra/
• Hyphenation: lep?ra

Noun

lepra

1. leprosy

   Synonyms: abras, kusta, taiko

Further reading

• “lepra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

lepra f (plural lepre)

1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of lebbra

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (lépra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le.pra/, [????p?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.pra/, [?l??p??]

Noun

lepra f (genitive leprae); first declension

1. leprosy

Usage notes

This word is usually plural in Classical Latin, but primarily used in the singular in Late Latin.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lepr?sus

Descendants

• Italian: lebbra
• Portuguese: lepra
• Russian: ????? (lepra)
• Spanish: lepra

References

• lepra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lepra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Noun

lepra f

1. leprosy

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin lepra (“leprosy”), from Ancient Greek ????? (lépra, “leprosy”), from ????? (lepís, “scale”), from ???? (lép?, “I peel”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?l?.p??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?l?.p?a/, /?l?.p??/

Noun

lepra f (uncountable)

1. leprosy (infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae)

   Synonyms: mal de Hansen, morfeia, hanseniase

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lepra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lépra), from ????? (lepís, “scale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lep?a/, [?le.p?a]

Noun

lepra f (uncountable)

1. leprosy

Related terms

• leproso

Further reading

• “lepra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

lepry (plural lepries)

1. (obsolete) leprosy

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Anagrams

• plyer, reply

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?pr?]
• Rhymes: -pr?
• Hyphenation: le?p?ry

Noun

lepry

1. inflection of lepra:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Anagrams

• perly