Etymology

shingles

S1H4I1N1G2L1E1S1

Today it means: Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus. Full definition →

Latin cingulus ← Ancient Greek ζώνη
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromζώνη
  2. Latin · derived fromcingulus
  3. English todayshingles

From Latin cingulus, variant of cingulum (“girdle”), translating Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē), ζωστήρ (zōstḗr).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekζώνη all →

zoneperizoniumzonure

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.