fluruncum.
inflammatory tumor, boil
Meaning & usage
inflammatory tumor, boil
Where this word comes from
Metathesized from furunculus, perhaps thanks to a folk-etymology relating it to flōrem (“flower”), imagining abscesses as flowers blossoming on one's skin. The metathesis apparently occurred early enough to preserve /k/, at least on the underlying (phonemic) level, before the palatalization that would have altered it in much of Western Romance; cf. the descendants of non-metathesized furunculus.
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