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English
Etymology
From Japanese 鼠毒.
Noun
sodoku (uncountable)
- (medicine, pathology) A bacterial zoonotic disease, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Spirillum minus.
French
Noun
sodoku m (plural sodokus)
- sodoku
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 鼠毒 (sodoku, literally “rat poison”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soˈdo.ku/, /soˈdɔ.ku/
- Rhymes: -oku, -ɔku
- Hyphenation: so‧dó‧ku, so‧dò‧ku
Noun
sodoku m (invariable)
- (pathology) rat-bite fever
Further reading
- sodoku in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana