coryza

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɑɪ̯.zə/

Noun

coryza (countable and uncountable, plural coryzas or coryzae or coryzæ)

2. (medicine) Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.

   Hypernym: catarrh

   • 1949, Robert Scott Stevenson, Douglas Guthrie, A History of Oto-laryngology:

     In his writing on coryza, Celsus repeats the belief of Hippocrates that some cases of phthisis owe their origin to catarrh of the nasal passages; so far as coryza is concerned, he says, there is nothing pestiferous about it unless it ulcerates  […]

   • 1964, Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism:

     Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza, during the day (second day),⁴.^[sic]—Obstruction of left nostril, in evening […] After pain in the head, which continued ten days, coryza, sore throat, and extension to bronchial mucous membranes […]

   • 1971, Edwin Burton Levine, Hippocrates:

     Sore throat and coryza (cold) in the very aged do not exhibit the phenomena associated with pepsis (apparently, the changes normally occurring in the younger population).

4. (medicine, broadly, metonymically) Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.

   Synonym: catarrh

Derived terms

• coryzal

Translations

inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity

• Bulgarian: ринит (rinit), тежка хрема (težka hrema)
• French: coryza (fr) m
• Italian: coriza f
• Portuguese: coriza (pt) f

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

coryza m (plural coryzas)

1. coryza

Further reading

• “coryza”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈryːz.za/, [kɔˈryːz̪d̪͡z̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrid.d͡za/, [koˈrid̪ː͡z̪ä]

Noun

corȳza f (genitive corȳzae); first declension

1. catarrh

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corȳza	corȳzae
Genitive	corȳzae	corȳzārum
Dative	corȳzae	corȳzīs
Accusative	corȳzam	corȳzās
Ablative	corȳzā	corȳzīs
Vocative	corȳza	corȳzae

References

• “coryza”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coryza in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.