leper

• n.[皮]ハンセン病にかかった人；軽蔑された人（触れられたくない人）
• n.[ハンセン病患者]人の名前；（ロシア語）Leper；（英語）Leper

ラテン語のlepra、leprosyが語源で、語源的にはleafと同じ。 皮膚が小さな葉に似ている状態の婉曲表現。

leper

leper: [13] Etymologically, a person suffering from leprosy has ‘scaly’ skin. The Greek word for ‘scale’ was lépos or lepís. From them was derived the adjective leprós ‘scaly’, whose feminine form léprā was used as a noun meaning ‘leprosy’. This passed via Latin lepra and Old French lepre into English as leper, where it still denoted ‘leprosy’. In the 14th century it came to be used for a ‘person suffering from leprosy’.

leper (n.)

"one afflicted with leprosy," late 14c., from Late Latin lepra, from Greek lepra "leprosy," from fem. of lepros (adj.) "scaly," from leops "a scale," related to lepein "to peel," from lopos "a peel," from PIE root *lep- "to peel, scale" (see leaf (n.)). Originally the word for the disease itself (mid-13c.); because of the -er ending it came to mean "person with leprosy," so leprosy was coined 16c. from adjective leprous.

1. The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company.

新聞のこの記事は彼女に「社交毒薬」の名を冠し、人はそれを伍すべきではないと主張している。

2.The building was said to be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.

このビルにはハンセン病の女性の幽霊がよく出没するという。

3.The leper in our gospel had a different attitude.

福音書の？狂病患者は異なる態度を持っている。

4.The building be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.

この「ビル」にはハンセン病の女性の幽霊がよく出没するという。

5.He was also a mighty man of valor,but a leper .

彼はまた有能な勇士で、ただマリファナが生えて狂っているだけだ。