different between cholera vs sickness

English

Etymology

From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kholéra, “cholera”). Doublet of choler.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?l???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?l???/
• Hyphenation: chol?e?ra

Noun

cholera (countable and uncountable, plural choleras)

1. (pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus

     'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'

Derived terms

Related terms

• choler

Translations

See also

• gastroenteritis

Anagrams

• Laroche, achelor, chorale, choreal

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?xol?ra]
• Hyphenation: cho?le?ra

Noun

cholera f

1. cholera

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cholera, from Ancient Greek [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xo?.l??ra?/
• Hyphenation: cho?le?ra

Noun

cholera f or m (uncountable)

1. cholera

Related terms

• klere
• kolere

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kholéra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?o.le.ra/, [?k??????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.le.ra/, [?k??l???]

Noun

cholera f (genitive cholerae); first declension

1. cholera

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: còlera
• English: cholera
• French: colère, choléra
• Russian: ??????? (xoléra)
• Spanish: cólera

References

• cholera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cholera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cholera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

From Latin cholera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kholéra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x??l?.ra/

Noun

cholera f

1. (pathology) cholera

Declension

Interjection

cholera

1. damn!

Derived terms

• (noun) cholerstwo
• (adjective) cholerny

Related terms

• (adverb) cholernie

Further reading

• cholera in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cholera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek ???? (khol?, “bile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?l?ra/

Noun

cholera f (genitive singular cholery, nominative plural cholery, genitive plural cholier, declension pattern of žena)

1. cholera

Declension

Derived terms

• cholerový

Further reading

• cholera in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

English

Etymology

From Old English s?ocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?kn?s/
• Hyphenation: sick?ness

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

   I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare

   Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.

   Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7

     We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

Synonyms

• (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

Derived terms

Translations

References

• sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.