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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin per- (“thorough”) + tussis (“cough”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: pêr‧tu‧sis
Noun
pêrtusis (first-person possessive pertusisku, second-person possessive pertusismu, third-person possessive pertusisnya)
- (pathology) whooping cough, 100-day cough, pertussis.
- Synonyms: batuk rejan, batuk seratus hari
Further reading
Latin
Participle
pertūsīs
- dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of pertūsus
Spanish
Noun
pertusis f (plural pertusis)
- pertussis