escrófula

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1409. Learned borrowing from Latin scrōfula (“little sow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [esˈkɾɔfulɐ]

Noun

escrófula f (plural escrófulas)

1. (pathology) scrofula (a form tuberculosis)

   Synonyms: alporca, carbunco, lamparón

   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 157:

     aas vezes nace con algũas sobeg[e]dũes de carne ou de landoas que se geeran ontre o coiro e a carne, e son chamadas landoas o[u] [e]scrofulas, que dizen porcas

     sometimes it grows with some excess of flesh or of glands that are generated in between the skin and the flesh, and they are called glands or scrofulas, which they call porcas

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escrófula”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escrófula”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escrófula”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scrōfula.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈkɾɔ.fu.lɐ/, /esˈkɾɔ.fu.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈkɾɔ.fu.lɐ/, /esˈkɾɔ.fu.lɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈkɾɔ.fu.lɐ/, /eʃˈkɾɔ.fu.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /esˈkɾɔ.fu.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkɾɔ.fu.lɐ/

Noun

escrófula f (plural escrófulas)

1. (pathology) scrofula (a form tuberculosis)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkɾofula/ [esˈkɾo.fu.la]
• Rhymes: -ofula
• Syllabification: es‧cró‧fu‧la

Noun

escrófula f (plural escrófulas)

1. scrofula

Further reading

• “escrófula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28