scabies Latin · revision 34014

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la scabō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈska.bi.eːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈskaː.bi.es]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scabiēs''' ''f'' (genitive scabiēī); fifth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|scabō|-iēs|t1=to scratch, scrape]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*skaf-e/o-|t=to scratch]]; de Vaan compares [[lt|skõbti|t=to plane]] and [[goh|scaban|t=to plane]], which may continue an iterative stem [[ine-pro|*skobh-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who warns the farmer to guard sheep and draught animals against the scab, which comes from hunger and rain.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a roughness of the skin with eruptions and itching, a broad term for eczema-like complaints in people and for mange and scab in animals:^(OLD 2012) Lucilius has a man foul with the scab, and Celsus describes the red skin and pustules.^(OLD 2012) Catullus uses it as a term of abuse, calling two men the scab and famine of the world.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of a disease of trees and plants, and Virgil of the rust and roughness that corrode iron.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is a morbid itch or craving: Cicero speaks of a sweetness and itch that good things lack, Horace of the itch for gain, and Martial of an itch for slander and of lust.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) A children's game, apparently a game of chasing, had the same name.^(OLD 2012) Augustine speaks of the itch of the passions,^(Georges 1913) and medieval British writers also use it of a disease of the bladder.^(DMLBS) English borrowed it about 1400 as [[m|en|scabies]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of scab in livestock.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of a man foul with the scab.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a figurative itch.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the corrosion of iron.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a disease of trees.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine of the itch of the passions.^(Georges 1913)

+ * c. 1400 – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|scabies]], "the itch".^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Roughness of the skin with eruptions and itching; the [[m|en|itch]], [[m|en|mange]], scab.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A similar disease of trees and plants.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Roughness from corrosion, [[m|en|mildew]] or dirt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The name of a children's game, apparently a chasing game.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A morbid itch, craving; [[m|en|lust]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[scabiola]]

+ * [[scabiōsus]]

+ * [[scabitūdō]]

+ * [[scabidus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scaber]]

+ * [[scabō]]

+ * [[scobis]]

+ * [[en|scabies]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}