different between rash vs roseola

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English rash, rasch (“hasty, headstrong”), from Old English *ræsc ("rash"; found in derivatives: ræscan (“to move rapidly, flicker, flash, quiver, glitter”), ræscettan (“to crackle, sparkle”), etc.), from Proto-Germanic *raskaz, *raskuz, *raþskaz, *raþskuz (“rash, rapid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ret- (“to run, roll”). Cognate with Dutch rasch, ras (“rash, snell”), Middle Low German rasch (“rash”), German rasch (“rash, swift”), Swedish rask (“brisk, quick, rash”), Icelandic röskur (“strong, vigorous”).

Adjective

rash (comparative rasher, superlative rashest)

1. Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty.

2. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
3. (obsolete) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
4. (obsolete) Fast-acting.

Synonyms

• brash
• heady
• hotheaded
• impulsive
• inconsiderate
• precipitate

Derived terms

• rashness

Translations

See also

• prudent
• reckless

Etymology 2

Likely from Old French rasche (“rash, scurf”), from Vulgar Latin root *r?sic?re (“to scrape”), from Latin r?sus (“scraped, scratched”), from Latin r?d? (“I scratch, scrape”). More at raze/rase.

Noun

rash (plural rashes)

1. (medicine) An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
2. A surge in problems; a spate, string or trend.

Synonyms

• (a surge in problems): epidemic

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)

1. (obsolete) To prepare with haste.

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Etymology 3

Compare French ras (“short-nap cloth”), Italian and Spanish raso, satin, or Italian rascia (“serge”), German Rasch, probably from Arras in France.

Noun

rash (uncountable)

1. An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

Etymology 4

For arace

Verb

rash (third-person singular simple present rashes, present participle rashing, simple past and past participle rashed)

1. (obsolete) To pull off or pluck violently.
2. (obsolete) To slash; to hack; to slice.

Further reading

• rash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rash in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “rash”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• AHRS, SHRA, Sahr, hars, rahs

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from diminutive of Latin rosa (“a rose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??(?)?zi??l?/, /????z????l?/
• Hyphenation: ro?se?o?la

Noun

roseola (countable and uncountable, plural roseolas or roseolae)

1. (pathology) A rosy rash occurring in measles, typhoid fever, syphilis and some other diseases.
2. (medicine) The common name for roseola infantum.
3. (medicine) German measles.

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• aerosol