Where does “scabies” come from?

Scabies comes from Middle English scabies, from Latin scabies, from the Latin verb scabo meaning to scratch, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European skabʰ-.

scabies (English): An infestation of parasitic mites, "Sarcoptes...

Definitions

  1. An infestation of parasitic mites, "Sarcoptes...

Ancestry of “scabies”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishscabies—
2Latinscabiēsroughness, scurf
3Latin-iesUsed to form an abstract noun, usually from an...
4Proto-Indo-European-yḗh₂s—

Words derived from “scabies”

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