epideemia
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Estonian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin epidēmia, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἐπιδήμιος (epidḗmios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).
Pronunciation
Noun
epideemia (genitive epideemia, partitive epideemiat)
- epidemic (a mass outbreak of an acute infectious disease)
- Synonym: taud
- (figuratively) a rapidly spreading (unpleasant) phenomenon
- Ülekaalu epideemia ei ole ainult ameeriklaste probleem. ― The epidemic of obesity is not only a problem for Americans.
- 1969 June, Paul Rummo, “Laulud nüüd lähevad”, in Looming, page 895:
- Viimasel ajal levib toretsevate saunade epideemia […]
- Lately, there's an epidemic of extravagant saunas spreading
Declension
| Declension of epideemia (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | epideemia | epideemiad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | epideemia | ||
| genitive | epideemiate | ||
| partitive | epideemiat | epideemiaid | |
| illative | epideemiasse | epideemiatesse epideemiaisse | |
| inessive | epideemias | epideemiates epideemiais | |
| elative | epideemiast | epideemiatest epideemiaist | |
| allative | epideemiale | epideemiatele epideemiaile | |
| adessive | epideemial | epideemiatel epideemiail | |
| ablative | epideemialt | epideemiatelt epideemiailt | |
| translative | epideemiaks | epideemiateks epideemiaiks | |
| terminative | epideemiani | epideemiateni | |
| essive | epideemiana | epideemiatena | |
| abessive | epideemiata | epideemiateta | |
| comitative | epideemiaga | epideemiatega | |
Derived terms
Compounds
References
- epideemia in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “epideemia”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “epideemia”, in Võõrsõnade leksikon [Lexicon of Foreign Words] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012