different between pellagra vs pelt

English

Etymology

From Italian pellagra, probably from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Italian -agra in e.g. chiragra, podagra.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??la???/, /p??la???/

Noun

pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)

1. (pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 531:

     In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.

Related terms

• pellagric
• pellagrous

Translations

Finnish

Noun

pellagra

1. (pathology) pellagra

Declension

Italian

Noun

pellagra f (plural pellagre)

1. (pathology) pellagra

Related terms

• pellagroso

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French pelette, diminutive of pel (“a skin”), from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry (“skins”) from the same Old French and Latin roots.Norwegian pels, Norwegian belte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
2. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
3. (humorous) Human skin.

   • A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Possible contraction of pellet

Verb

pelt (third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)

1. (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.

   They pelted the attacking army with bullets.

2. (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.

   The children pelted apples at us.

3. (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.

   It's pelting down out there!

4. (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
5. (intransitive) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.

   The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To throw out words.

Translations

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
   • 2013, Karen-Anne Stewart, Healing Rain (page 134)

     Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pelt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• -lept, lept, lept-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

pelt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of pellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of pellen