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diphtheria
English
Etymology
From French diphtérie (later for a while also spelled diphthérie) in 1857, which was coined in 1855 with the suffix -ie to replace -ite in the previous term diphtérite for the disease because it affects more than one part of the body. The previous term (later for a while also spelled diphthérite) was coined in 1817 by Pierre Bretonneau using Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra, “prepared hide, leather”) in reference to the tough membrane that forms in the throat. Bretonneau perhaps coined and used the Latin term diphtheritis (with its close imitation of Greek spelling typical of Neolatin) even earlier than the French term diphtérite, which follows the French habit of sometimes spelling t for the Latin transliteration th of Greek ? (but not, for example, in thermomètre).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?f???????/, /d?p???????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?f????i.?/, /d?p????i.?/
- Rhymes: -???i?
- Rhymes: -??i?
Noun
diphtheria (countable and uncountable, plural diphtherias)
- (pathology) A serious infectious disease leading to inflammation of mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
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Further reading
- diphtheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “diphtérie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- ??????? in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Interlingua
Noun
diphtheria (uncountable)
- diphtheria
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diphtheroid
English
Etymology
diphtheria +? -oid
Adjective
diphtheroid (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to or resembling diphtheria.
- Of, pertaining to or resembling the diphtheria bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
Noun
diphtheroid (plural diphtheroids)
- Any bacterium that can cause diphtheria
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