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Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) Poisonous bodily fluid, especially venom of a venomous animal, such as a snake, dragon or other reptile; corrupt or morbid matter from the body, such as pus from a sore or wound; bitter substance, such as bile.
2. (archaic, figuratively) Moral corruption or corruptness; noxious or corrupt influence, poison to the soul, evil, anger, envy, hatred; destruction, death.
3. (UK, dialectal) Epithelium produced on the tongue.
4. (UK, dialectal) A scab; a dry sore.

Verb

1. (UK, dialectal) to venom; sting
2. (UK, dialectal) to discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake

Concetti

materia purulenta

pus

sinonimi

ichor

pus

yellow bile

Traduzioni

صديد

قيح

pus

Eiter

πύον

pus

nêm

sanies

etter

pus

pus

pus

cerahat

iltihap

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈætə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: atter

Ereditato da inglese antico: āttor

Affine greco antico: οἶδος

Affine scozzese: attir

Affine scozzese: atter

Affine norse antico: eitr

Affine islandese: eitur

Affine faroese: eitur

Affine norvegese: eiter

Affine svedese: etter

Affine danese: edder

Affine saterfriesisch: Atter

Affine olandese: etter

Affine tedesco: Eiter

In summary

From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”), related to Ancient Greek οἶδος (oîdos, “swelling, tumour, abscess, produced by internal action”).
Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Old Norse eitr, Icelandic eitur (“poison”), Faroese eitur, Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”).