psora

Learned borrowing from Latin psōra, from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːɹ.ə/

psora (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A cutaneous disease, especially psoriasis, scabies, or mange.

• psoriasis
• psorosis

• Paros, Poras, aspro, praos, proas, rapos, rapso, roaps, sapor, sapro-

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpsoː.ra/, [ˈps̠oːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpso.ra/, [ˈpsɔːrä]

psōra f (genitive psōrae); first declension

1. the itch, mange

   Synonyms: scabiēs, sarna

First-declension noun.

• → English: psora (learned)
• → French: psora, psore (learned)

• “psora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• psora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette