ἐρυσίπελας
From LSJ
οὐκ ἔστι λύπης ἄλγημα μεῖζον → there is no greater pain than grief
English (LSJ)
πέλατος, τό,
A erysipelas, Hp.VM19 (pl.), Prog.23, Aph.5.23, Gal.10.949, Orib.45.1.3 (pl.), Gp. 12.23.5 (pl.), etc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐρῠσίπελας: -ατος, τὸ, ἰσχυρὰ φλόγωσις καὶ ἐξοίδησις τοῦ δέρματος, κοινῶς «ἀνεμοπύρωμα», Ἱππ. π. Ἀρχ. Ἰητρ. 16, Προγν. 45, 17, Ἀφ. 1253. (Ἐκ τοῦ ἐρυθρός, πέλλα, = δέρμα, Κουρτ. ἀρ. 353· πρβλ. ἐρυσίβη).
Frisk Etymological English
-τος
Grammatical information: n.
Meaning: name of a skin disease, Erysipelas
Other forms: often in plur.
Derivatives: with -ατώδης (Hp., Gal.).
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Medic. term of unusual formation; a learned compound?. The 1. member also in ἐρυσίβη<< (?)
and the plant-name ἐρυσί-σκηπτρον (Thphr.); s.v.; a word πέλας is further unknown, cf. however on πέλμα. So "what reddens the skin"? (Schwyzer 443 n. 5); of course it may also be of Pre-Greek origin, like the beginning of the word (I see no reason for Furnée's suggestion 214 n. 60 that it would be from ἐρύω).
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