French disease

English Etymology The full explanation of why syphilis was called the French disease as a calque across various languages involves a 1495 outbreak involving French soldiers (more in Wikipedia at History of syphilis); but it is also true that this term is one of several that blame othered ethnicities for distasteful and unseemly things. Proper noun 1 en Q41083 en dated euphemistic syphilis. en French pox<id:Q41083> French gout<id:Q41083> en 2010-11-30 L. McGough Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay Springer 9780230298071 88 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 Related terms en French kissing Translations syphilis Finnish: fi ranskantauti French: fr mal de Naples m Neapolitan malady, fr mal italien m Italian malady, fr gale de Naples f Neapolitan scabies all archaic German: de Franzosenkrankheit f French disease dated Korean: ko 당옴(唐) Chinese / foreign disease obsolete Latin: la morbus gallicus m Polish: pl francuska choroba f Spanish: es mal francés m French malady en Bacterial diseases Sexually transmitted diseases