# jaundice
## English
### Alternative forms

* jaundies (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔndɪs/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs/
* (US, dialectal) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒændɚz/, /ˈd͡ʒɑndɚz/, /ˈd͡ʒɔndɚz/ (see janders)
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːndɪs

### Noun

jaundice (countable and uncountable, plural jaundices)
* (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine. [from early 14th c.]
    Synonym: icterus
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 163:Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?
** 1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes:But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!
** 2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 215:In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).
** 2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books, →ISBN, page 8:Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?
* (figurative) A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy. [from 1620s]
** 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48:No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]

#### Derived terms

* black jaundice
* blue jaundice
* hepatogenous jaundice
* jaundice root

#### See also

* cyanopathy

### Verb

jaundice (third-person singular simple present jaundices, present participle jaundicing, simple past and past participle jaundiced)
* (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. [from 1791]
** 1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel:The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Bingham, Caleb (1808) “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎, 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 75.
* ↑ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 7, page 33.

### Further reading

* jaundice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Jacuinde