English Explanatory Dictionary

allergy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. Specifically, hypersensitivity of class I in the modern classification thereof: the immunoglobulin E–mediated type.
  3. An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

Pronunciation

ălʹər-jē /ˈæl.əɹ.d͡ʒi/ [ˈæl.ə.dʒi] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-allergy.wav [ˈæl.ɚ.d͡ʒi] /əˈlɜ(ɾ)dʒi/

Word forms

allergy allergies

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.

Synonyms

type 1 hypersensitivity intolerance

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

Albanian: alergji Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة Arabic: حَسَّاسِيَّة Armenian: ալերգիա Asturian: alerxa Azerbaijani: allergiya South Azerbaijani: حساسیة Belarusian: алергі́я Bengali: এলার্জি Bulgarian: але́ргия Burmese: မတဲ့ဘူး Catalan: al·lèrgia Chinese Mandarin: 過敏 /过敏 Cornish: alergedh Czech: alergie Danish: allergi Dutch: allergie Esperanto: alergio Estonian: allergia Faroese: ovurviðkvæmi Finnish: allergia French: allergie Galician: alerxia Georgian: ალერგია German: Allergie Greek: αλλεργία Hebrew: אַלֶרגִיָה Hindi: एलर्जी Hungarian: allergia Icelandic: ofnæmi Ido: alergio Indonesian: alergi Irish: ailléirge Italian: allergia Japanese: アレルギー Kazakh: аллергия Khmer: អាឡែរហ្សី Khmer: អាឡែស៊ី Korean: 알레르기 Kyrgyz: аллергия Latvian: alerģija Lithuanian: alergija
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