Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A contagious disease of freshwater fishes, caused by a ciliated protozoan (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis) and characterized by small white pustules on the skin and eyes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of each.
  • A form of I, the nominative of the first personal pronoun, in the southern dialect of early English, and occasionally found in the midland dialect.
  • noun An abbreviation of ichthyology.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • pronoun obsolete I.

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  • pronoun personal, obsolete I.
  • noun ichthyology Ichthyophthiriasis, a parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by the ciliate Ichthyophthirius

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for New Latin Ichthyophthīrius, genus name : ichthyo– + Greek phtheir, louse.]

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From Middle English ich, from Old English  ("I", pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”). See also ch-, I.

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Shortening of ichthyophthiriasis.

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