lepra

From Latin lepra (“psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from Koine Greek λέπρα (lépra, “psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from λεπρός (leprós, “scaly”), from either λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) or λέπος (lépos, “husk, scale”) + -ρος (-ros, “forming adjectives”). The shift of sense from psoriasis to Hansen's disease occurred in large part from the use of λέπρα (lépra) to translate Hebrew צרעת‎ (“tzaraath”) in the Septuagint and its subsequent use in the New Testament and Late Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛprə/

lepra (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) Synonym of leprosy.
   • 1914, Henry Weightman Stelwagon, Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, 7th ed., p. 914:

     Lepra is an endemic, chronic, malignant, constitutional disease, due to a specific bacillus.

2. (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of psoriasis.
   • 1864, William Tilbury Fox, Skin Diseases, p. 43:

     Lepra and psoriasis are identical, though the two names are retained.

3. (botany, rare, obsolete) Any layer of algae, lichens, or other substance producing a leprosylike appearance on the surfaces of plants.
   • 1805, translation of Karl Ludwig Willdenow as The Principles of Botany and of Vegetable Physiology, p. 344:

     Lepra is frequently met with on the trunks, especially of young trees.

• “lepra, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• lepra in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• APLer, Alper, Pearl, paler, parle, pearl, repla

From Latin lepra.

lepra f (uncountable)

1. leprosy

   Synonym: llebrosia

• leprós

• “lepra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lepra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “lepra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lepra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlepra/

lepra f (plural lepre)

1. Alternative form of levra

• “levra, leura, lepra, levura, lefra, levru” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛpra]
• Rhymes: -pra
• Hyphenation: le‧p‧ra

lepra f

1. leprosy

• lepróza
• lepromatózní
• leprosarium
• leprosárium

• perla
• raple

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• Hyphenation: le‧pra

lepra m (uncountable)

1. leprosy

• melaatsheid

• → Caribbean Javanese: léprah

• parel

From Swedish lepra, ultimately from Koine Greek λέπρᾱ (léprā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈleprɑ/, [ˈle̞prɑ]
• Rhymes: -eprɑ
• Syllabification^(key): lep‧ra

lepra

1. (pathology) leprosy

• Hansenin tauti
• spitaali

• spitaalinen

From New Latin lepra, from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra, “leprosy”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛprɒ]
• Hyphenation: lep‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

lepra (comparative leprább, superlative legleprább)

1. (slang) stinking (very bad)

lepra (plural leprák)

1. leprosy (infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae)

• lepra in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Dutch lepra, ultimately from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra, “leprosy”).

• IPA^(key): /lɛpra/
• Hyphenation: lep‧ra

lepra (first-person possessive lepraku, second-person possessive lepramu, third-person possessive lepranya)

1. leprosy

   Synonyms: abras, kusta, taiko

• “lepra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

lepra f (plural lepre)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of lebbra

• perla

From Koine Greek λέπρα (lépra, “psoriasis & similar skin diseases”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pra/, [ˈɫ̪ɛprä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pra/, [ˈlɛːprä]

lepra f (genitive leprae); first declension

1. psoriasis, similar skin disorders
2. (Late Latin) leprosy

This word is usually plural in Classical Latin, but primarily used in the singular in Late Latin.

First-declension noun.

• leprōsus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛp.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛpra
• Syllabification: lep‧ra

lepra f

1. leprosy

• lepra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lepra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin lepra (“leprosy”), from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra, “leprosy”), from λεπίς (lepís, “scale”), from λέπω (lépō, “to peel”).

lepra f (uncountable)

1. leprosy (infectious disease caused by infection by Mycobacterium leprae)

   Synonyms: mal de Hansen, morfeia, hanseniase

From Latin lepra, from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra), from λεπίς (lepís, “scale”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlepɾa/ [ˈle.pɾa]
• Rhymes: -epɾa
• Syllabification: le‧pra

lepra f (uncountable)

1. leprosy

• leproso

• “lepra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014