"French disease" meaning in English

See French disease in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: So called because it was spread by returning French troops in mediaeval times. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} French disease (uncountable)
  1. (dated, euphemistic) Syphilis. Tags: dated, euphemistic, uncountable Categories (topical): Bacterial diseases, Sexually transmitted diseases Translations (syphilis): mal de Naples (english: Neapolitan malady) [masculine] (French), mal italien (english: Italian malady) [masculine] (French), gale de Naples (english: Neapolitan scabies) [archaic, feminine] (French), Franzosenkrankheit (english: French disease) [dated, feminine] (German), morbus gallicus [masculine] (Latin), mal francés (english: French malady) [masculine] (Spanish)
{
  "etymology_text": "So called because it was spread by returning French troops in mediaeval times.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "French disease (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bacterial diseases",
          "orig": "en:Bacterial diseases",
          "parents": [
            "Diseases",
            "Disease",
            "Health",
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sexually transmitted diseases",
          "orig": "en:Sexually transmitted diseases",
          "parents": [
            "Diseases",
            "Disease",
            "Health",
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 November 30, L. McGough, Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay, Springer, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "Although the Inquisition trials dealing with the French disease are few in number, the cases provide competing opinions about the cause of illness, thereby providing some insights into how the categories of natural and supernatural[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Syphilis."
      ],
      "id": "en-French_disease-en-noun-4GducD-f",
      "links": [
        [
          "Syphilis",
          "syphilis#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, euphemistic) Syphilis."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "euphemistic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "Neapolitan malady",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mal de Naples"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "Italian malady",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mal italien"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "Neapolitan scabies",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "archaic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gale de Naples"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "english": "French disease",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "dated",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Franzosenkrankheit"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "morbus gallicus"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "english": "French malady",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "syphilis",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mal francés"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "French disease"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "So called because it was spread by returning French troops in mediaeval times.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "French disease (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "en:Bacterial diseases",
        "en:Sexually transmitted diseases"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 November 30, L. McGough, Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay, Springer, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "Although the Inquisition trials dealing with the French disease are few in number, the cases provide competing opinions about the cause of illness, thereby providing some insights into how the categories of natural and supernatural[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Syphilis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Syphilis",
          "syphilis#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, euphemistic) Syphilis."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "euphemistic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "Neapolitan malady",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mal de Naples"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "Italian malady",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mal italien"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "Neapolitan scabies",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gale de Naples"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "French disease",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Franzosenkrankheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morbus gallicus"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "english": "French malady",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "syphilis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mal francés"
    }
  ],
  "word": "French disease"
}

Download raw JSONL data for French disease meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.