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scarlatina Path.|skɑːləˈtiːnə|
Also 9 scarlet(t)ina.
[a. mod.L. scarlatina (Sydenham 1676), a. It. scarlattina (used by Lancelotti in 1527), fem. of scarlattino adj., dim. of scarlatto scarlet. Cf. F. scarlatine, Sp., Pg. escarlatina.]
= scarlet fever. (Popularly often misapprehended as denoting a milder form of the disease than that designated by the vernacular term.)
1803Med. Jrnl. X. 455 Several children were..seized with the measles and scarlatina. 1813Wilberforce Let. in Life (1838) IV. 131 One of our children having had the Scarlettina. 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 300 Persons suffering from scarlatina. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. III. i. 16 She looks as if she were going to a ball; or going to have the scarlatina.
allusively1823Moore Fables Holy Alliance 49 Woe to Kings when Freedom's fever Once turns into a Scarletina! |