different between baise vs contagion

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German w?ze, from Old High German w?z?, equivalent to bais +? -e. Cognate with German Weiße.

Noun

bàise n

1. white, whiteness, white part

References

• “bàisan” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?z/
• Homophones: baises, baisent

Noun

baise f (plural baises)

1. (dated) kiss
2. (vulgar) fuck, fucking (sexual intercourse)

Verb

baise

1. first-person singular present indicative of baiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of baiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of baiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of baiser
5. second-person singular imperative of baiser

Further reading

• “baise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• abies, baies

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?a??]

Etymology 1

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Noun

baise f (genitive singular baise)

1. baize

   Synonym: baiséadach

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

baise f sg

1. genitive singular of bas

Mutation

Further reading

• "baise" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “baize” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “baise” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

English

Etymology

From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin cont?gi? (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to conting? (“touch closely”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?te?d??n/
• Rhymes: -e?d??n

Noun

contagion (countable and uncountable, plural contagions)

1. A disease spread by contact.
2. The spread or transmission of such a disease.

   Synonym: infection

3. (figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
   1. (finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
      • 2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:

        And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.

4. (finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• quarantine
• Contagious disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cognation

French

Etymology

From Latin cont?gi?.

Noun

contagion f (plural contagions)

1. contagion

Related terms

• contagieux

Further reading

• “contagion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).