syphilo-, syphil-, syphili-, syphi-

(Latin: Syphil[us], the eponymous main character of Girolamo Fracastoro's poem "Syphilus sive Morbus Gallicus" [Syphilus, or the French Disease], published at Verona, Italy [1530])

Syphilis is a venereal disease (of which Fracastoro's hero Syphilus, was a victim) and is caused by the microorganism Treponema pallidum.

Syphilus was a shepard whose name literally means a "friend of swine". Perhaps it was derived from Greek syn-, "together", plus philein "to love", or from Greek siphlos, "crippled, maimed". No one seems to know for certain.


antisyphilitic
dermosyphilopathy (s) (noun) (no pl)
Cutaneous lesions of syphilis: The second stage of the the venereal disease development of syphilis occurs with a rash all over the body, termed dermosyphilopathy.
neurosyphilis
syphilide
syphilionthus
syphilis
syphilize
syphiloderm
syphilogenesis
syphilologist
syphilology
syphilopathy (s) (noun), syphilopathies (pl)
One of various diseases caused by syphilis: Some examples of syphilopathies are meningitis, brain damage, paralysis, hearing and vision loss, and headaches.
syphilotherapy
syphitoxin