panaricium
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Alteration, by analogy with pānus (“tumour”), of earlier parōnychium~parōnychia, from Ancient Greek πᾰρωνῠχῐ́ᾱ (parōnukhíā). First found in this form in the writings of Pseudo-Apuleius.
Noun
panāricium n (genitive panāriciī or panāricī); second declension
- (Late Latin) a disease of the fingernails
Descendants
Forms with unexpected /ˈi/ presumably influenced by descendants of -īcius.
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: panareccio, panereccio, panariccio
- Neapolitan: panaruzzo (Matera), panaroicio (Agnone)
- Sicilian: pannarizzu
- Western Romance:
- Catalan: panadís
- Emilian: panarez
- Piedmontese: panaris
- Spanish: panadizo, panarizo
- Borrowings:
- → English: panaritium
- → Middle French: panarice
- French: panaris
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “panarĭcium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 7: N–Pas, page 535
Further reading
- “panaricium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- panaricium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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