carbuncle

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
2. A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
3. An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
4. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

Sinonieme

boil

anthrax

ulcer

abscess

garnet

pimple

sore

spot

pustule

short

skin disease

wart

wound

zit

Arizona ruby

escarbuncle

chabocle

charboucle

escarboucle

blister

carbon

coal

eruption

feruncle

furuncle

rhodolite

ruby

Vertalings

Karbunkel

escarboucle

carbúnculo

karbonkel

carbunco

carbunclo

carbonchio

carbunculus

ántrax

Karfunkel

foruncolo

حبة

carboncle

carbuncolo

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈkɑː.bʌŋ.kl̩/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: carbuncle

In summary

From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”). Doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel.