The story
- Latin · borrowed fromluēs“syphilis”
- English todaylues cerebri
Borrowed from Latin luēs (“syphilis”) + cerebrī (“of the brain”).
Words from the same roots
Latinluēs all →
lues
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lues cerebri
Today it means: cerebral syphilis Full definition →
Latin luēs