icterus

See also: Icterus

English

Etymology

From the Latin icterus, from the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

icterus (usually uncountable, plural icteruses)

1. (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice.
2. A yellowish appearance in plants.

Derived terms

• icteremia
• icteric
• icterometer
• icterus neonatorum

Translations

(medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood

Bulgarian: жълтеница (bg) f (žǎltenica) Greek: Ancient: ἴκτερος m (íkteros)

Anagrams

• crustie, curiets, curites, curse it

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”, “a bird of a yellowish-green colour, perhaps the golden oriole”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly related to ἴκτις (íktis, “weasel”), ἴκτινος (íktinos), or of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪk.tɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈik.te.rus]

Noun

icterus m (genitive icterī); second declension

1. a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure jaundice; perhaps loriot, golden oriole

Usage notes

• The Latin word that translates the English words jaundice and icterus is aurūgō.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	icterus	icterī
genitive	icterī	icterōrum
dative	icterō	icterīs
accusative	icterum	icterōs
ablative	icterō	icterīs
vocative	ictere	icterī

Related terms

• icteriās
• ictericus

Descendants

• English: icterus
• German: Ikterus
• Translingual: Icterus

References

• “ictĕrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ictĕrus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 765/1.