different between syphilis vs chancre

English

Alternative forms

• syph (slang)

Etymology

From New Latin syphilis, originally the title of a poem by Girolamo Fracastoro concerning “Syphilus”, a shepherd boy who insulted the Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?f?l?s/

Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) great-pox, French disease, (archaic) French pox, lues, lues venerea, syph, ladies' fever, French gout

   Coordinate terms: clap, gonorrhea

   Hypernyms: STD, VD

Derived terms

• syphilitic
• syphilize
• syphiloid

Translations

Further reading

• syphilis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.fi.lis/

Noun

syphilis f (plural syphilis)

1. syphilis

Interlingua

Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

1. syphilis

Latin

Etymology

First used in 1530 by Girolamo Fracastoro, from the name of a mythical first sufferer of the disease, Syphilus.

Noun

syphilis f (genitive syphilidis); third declension

1. (New Latin, medicine) syphilis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• lu?s, lu?s venerea, pudendagra, morbus Gallicus, scabi?s Gallica, morbus Neapol?t?nus, morbus Hisp?nicus, scabi?s Hisp?nica, morbus Indicus, morbus ?talus, morbus ?talicus, lu?s Hisp?nica, lu?s Gallica, lu?s Neapol?t?na

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ?.k?/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?(?)

Noun

chancre (plural chancres)

1. (pathology) Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.

Derived terms

• soft chancre

Related terms

• canker

Translations

Anagrams

• chancer

French

Etymology

From Middle French chancre, from Old French chancre, inherited from Latin cancer, cancrum, from Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of cancer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?/

Noun

chancre m (plural chancres)

1. (obsolete) lobster, crab
2. (medicine) canker, chancre

Related terms

• cancer
• cancre

Descendants

• ? English: chancre

Further reading

• “chancre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer, cancrum.

Noun

chancre m (plural chancres)

1. cancer (cancerous cell mutation)

Descendants

• French: chancre
  • ? English: chancre
• Norman: chancre

Norman

Etymology

From Old French chancre, from Latin cancer.

Noun

chancre m (plural chancres)

1. (Jersey, pathology) tumour, verruca; syphilis
2. (Jersey) Guernsey crab

Synonyms

• (Guernsey crab): houais

Derived terms

• chancreux (“cancerous”)