paludism

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French paludisme.[1]

Noun

paludism (usually uncountable, plural paludisms)

  1. (archaic, medicine) Malaria.
    • 1897, Matthew Louis Hughes, Mediterranean, Malta or Undulant Fever, London: Macmillan, page 3:
      Unlike paludism, its course is not markedly affected by the administration of quinine or arsenic.

References

  1. ^ “paludism”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French paludisme. By surface analysis, paludă +‎ -ism.

Noun

paludism n (uncountable)

  1. malaria

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative paludism paludismul
genitive-dative paludism paludismului
vocative paludismule
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