Where does “erizipelă” come from?

erizipelă (Romanian) comes from Italian erisipela, from Ancient Greek ἐρυσίπελας, from Ancient Greek ἐρεύθω — make red.

erizipelă (Romanian): erysipelas

Definitions

  1. erysipelas

Ancestry of “erizipelă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianerisipelaerysipelas
2Ancient Greekἐρυσίπελαςerysipelas, a skin disease
3Ancient Greekἐρεύθωmake red
Every word from Ancient Greek ἐρεύθω →Every word from Ancient Greek ἐρυσίπελας →Every word from Italian erisipela →