leprose

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1. Ancient Greekλέπω (lépō)
2. Ancient Greekλεπίς (lepís)
3. Koine Greekλέπρα (lépra)
4. Latinlepra
5. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
6. Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
7. New Latinleprōsu
8. English todayleprose

From New Latin leprōsus in botany especially as used by Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum and Late Latin leprōsus in medicine, from lepra (“psoriasis, leprosy”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -having”), from Koine Greek λέπρᾱ (léprā, “psoriasis & similar skin diseases”), from Ancient Greek λεπρός (leprós, “scaly”), from either λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) or λέπος (lépos, “husk, scale”) + -ρος (-ros, “forming adjectives”). By surface analysis, leprosy + -ose.

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