Pocke

Meaning

1. (feminine) pock
2. (feminine, in-plural) pox, smallpox (disease)

Concepts

pock

pustule

smallpox

Synonyms

Pocken

Translations

viruela

vaiolo

variole

pustola

verola

varíola

pústola

pustule

evlojiá

pokken

vairòla

pigota

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɔkə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German: pocke

Cognate with Dutch: pok

Cognate with English: pock

In summary

16th century, from Middle Low German pocke, from Proto-Germanic *pukkǭ, *pukkaz (“pock, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”).
Cognate with Dutch pok, English pock. Displaced the variants Poche, Pfoche, which may go back to related Proto-Germanic *pukô, but are perhaps merely inadequate adaptations of the Low German form. The native High German word for “pock” is Blatter.