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:
neurosyphilis:
syphilide:
syphilionthus:
syphiliphobia:
syphilis:
syphilize:
syphiloderm:
syphilogenesis:
syphilologist:
syphilology:
syphilopathy:
syphilophobia:
syphilotherapy:
syphitoxin:
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