allergy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Hellenic *áľľos
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
German Allergiebor.
English allergy
Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie.
Inflected forms:
form: allergies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: My dad can't live with pets because of an allergy.
gloss: A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: He has an allergy to reality TV.
Synonyms: type 1 hypersensitivity
Derived words: aeroallergy
allergen
allergic
allergin
allergist
allergoid
allergologist
allergology
allergylike
allergy salute
alpha-gal allergy
antiallergy
autoallergy
cold allergy
food allergy
lone-star-tick meat allergy
mammalian meat allergy
nonallergy
oral allergy syndrome
photoallergy
polyallergy
pseudoallergy
red meat allergy
tick-induced meat allergy
tick meat allergy
total allergy syndrome
water allergy
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: alergji
lang: Arabic
word: أَرَجِيَّة
roman: ʔarajiyya
lang: Arabic
word: حَسَّاسِيَّة
roman: ḥassāsiyya
lang: Armenian
word: ալերգիա
roman: alergia
lang: Asturian
word: alerxa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: allergiya
lang: South Azerbaijani
word: حساسیة
roman: həssasiyyət
lang: Belarusian
word: алергі́я
roman: aljerhíja
lang: Bengali
word: এলার্জি
roman: elarji
lang: Bulgarian
word: але́ргия
roman: alérgija
lang: Burmese
word: မတဲ့ဘူး
roman: ma.tai.bhu:
lang: Catalan
word: al·lèrgia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 過敏 /过敏
roman: guòmǐn
lang: Cornish
word: alergedh
lang: Czech
word: alergie
lang: Danish
word: allergi
lang: Dutch
word: allergie
lang: Esperanto
word: alergio
lang: Estonian
word: allergia
lang: Faroese
word: ovurviðkvæmi
lang: Finnish
word: allergia
lang: French
word: allergie
lang: Galician
word: alerxia
lang: Georgian
word: ალერგია
roman: alergia
lang: German
word: Allergie
lang: Greek
word: αλλεργία
roman: allergía
lang: Hebrew
word: אַלֶרגִיָה
roman: alergiya
lang: Hindi
word: एलर्जी
roman: elarjī
lang: Hungarian
word: allergia
lang: Icelandic
word: ofnæmi
lang: Ido
word: alergio
lang: Indonesian
word: alergi
lang: Irish
word: ailléirge
lang: Italian
word: allergia
lang: Japanese
word: アレルギー
roman: arerugī
lang: Kazakh
word: аллергия
roman: allergiä
lang: Khmer
word: អាឡែរហ្សី
roman: ʼaalaezəy
lang: Khmer
word: អាឡែស៊ី
roman: ʼaalaesii
lang: Korean
word: 알레르기
roman: allereugi
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аллергия
roman: allergiya
lang: Latvian
word: alerģija
lang: Lithuanian
word: alergija
lang: Macedonian
word: алергија
roman: alergija
lang: Malay
word: alahan
lang: Malay
word: alergi
lang: Manx
word: allerjee
lang: Māori
word: mate pāwera
lang: Māori
word: mate tūtohu
lang: Mongolian
word: харшил
roman: xaršil
lang: Navajo
word: hojoołáhígíí
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: allergi
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: allergi
lang: Persian
word: آلرژی
roman: âlerži
lang: Persian
word: حساسیت
roman: hassâsiyat
lang: Polish
word: uczulenie
lang: Polish
word: alergia
lang: Portuguese
word: alergia
lang: Romanian
word: alergie
lang: Russian
word: аллерги́я
roman: allergíja
lang: Northern Sami
word: allergiija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: алѐргија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: alèrgija
lang: Slovak
word: alergia
lang: Slovene
word: alergija
lang: Spanish
word: alergia
lang: Swedish
word: allergi
lang: Tagalog
word: taluramdam
lang: Tagalog
word: taluhiyang
lang: Tajik
word: аллергиа
roman: allergia
lang: Tamil
word: ஒவ்வாமை
roman: ovvāmai
lang: Tamil
word: அலர்ஜி
roman: alarji
lang: Thai
word: ภูมิแพ้
roman: puum-pɛ́ɛ
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆམས་ཚི
roman: chams tshi
lang: Turkish
word: alerji
lang: Turkmen
word: allergiýa
lang: Ukrainian
word: алергі́я
roman: alerhíja
lang: Urdu
word: الرجی
roman: elarjī
lang: Uzbek
word: allergiya
lang: Vietnamese
word: dị ứng
lang: Yiddish
word: אַלערגיע
roman: alergye
lang: Zazaki
word: alerciye (diq)