lazar

• Lazar

From Middle English lazare, from Old French lazare, from Latin lazarus, from Lazarus (name of a biblical figure), from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר‎ (ʼElʻāzār).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪzə/

lazar (plural lazars)

1. (archaic) A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     And Tamburlane cloked the fantasticall cruelty, he exercised upon Lazars or Leprousmen, with a foolish kinde of humanitie, putting all he could finde or heare-of, to death, (as he said,) to ridde them from so painefull and miserable a life, as they lived.

   • 1820, John Keats, "Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil," XVI:

     Why were they proud? Because fair orange-mounts

     Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?

• lazar house

• Lazarus
• leper

lazar (first-person singular present lazo, first-person singular preterite lacé, past participle lazado)

1. to lasso something.

• Rule: z becomes a c before e.

• lacear