different between disorder vs epizootic

English

Alternative forms

• disordre (obsolete)

Etymology

From dis- +? order. Middle English disordeine, from Old French desordainer, from Medieval Latin disordinare.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s???d?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s????d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
• Hyphenation: dis?or?der

Noun

disorder (countable and uncountable, plural disorders)

1. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.

2. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.

3. (medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction.

Synonyms

• (absence of order): chaos, entropy; see also Thesaurus:disorder
• (disturbance of civic peace): See also Thesaurus:riot

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

disorder (third-person singular simple present disorders, present participle disordering, simple past and past participle disordered)

1. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
2. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

Translations

Anagrams

• disordre, sordider

English

Alternative forms

• epizoötic (pentasyllabic senses)
• epizoodic (tetrasyllabic senses)
• epizudic (tetrasyllabic senses)

Etymology

From French épizootique, animal equivalent of epidemic, from épizootie, irregularly formed from Ancient Greek ??? (epí) + ???? (zôion, “animal”).epi- +? zo- +? -otic. Use of the word in the second sense, "an ailment", was likely originally a reference to a particular epizootic ailment. Both senses are attested since at least the 1800s, and the pronunciation with five syllables is explicitly attested since then as well. Dialectal pronunciation of the second sense with four syllables is attested since at least the 1910s in spellings like "epizudic" and is suggested by 1870s references to a shortened form of the word, "zooty".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.z??w?t?k/, /?p?.zo???t?k/
• (dialectal, especially in the sense ‘an ailment’) IPA^(key): /?p??zu?d?k/

Noun

epizootic (plural epizootics)

1. (epidemiology) An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period. Compare epidemic.

   At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.
2. A particular epizootic disease.
   • 1856, On the epizootic lately affecting lambs, in The Veterinarian; or Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science for 1856, volume XXIX-II, fourth series, edited by Morton and Simonds, page 450:

     A surgeon in the town has also informed me, that a person requested him to prescribe for some lambs affected with the epizootic, and he gave them Epsom salts and opium, with, as he said, very good effect.

3. (dialectal, humorous, often in the plural) A disease or ailment (of humans).

   Johnny's not doing so well today, I think he caught the epizootic.

   • 1873, Jeramiah Juniur Blows His Bugle, in Gem of the West and Soliders' Friend, seventh year, January 1873, page 378:

     Last fall, when Dad had the Epizootic; no, I don't mean that, tho I did think he had em, but when the Chicargar hosses got the Epizootic, Dad got all fired mad caus that xpressman didn't cum round to move the rest of our traps.

   • 1977, Dear Sammy: Letters from Getrude Stein and Alice Toklas, edited by Samuel M. Steward, page 237:

     Never do I have colds — but I got the epizootics(?) and sneezed my head off — twenty three times yesterday.

Usage notes

Used in the second sense to mean "an ailment", it is often preceded by the definite article ("the epizootic"), is often plural in form ("the epizootics"), and is sometimes written "(the) epizoodic".

Adjective

epizootic (comparative more epizootic, superlative most epizootic)

1. (epidemiology) Like or having to do with an epizootic: epidemic among animals.

   Epizootic plague occurred in the mice following introduction of rats from Europe.

   • 1913, J. J. Desmond, An enzootic of contagious abortion in cattle, in the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, September 1913, volume VIII, number 9, page 470:

     As much attention is being drawn to the subject of epizootic abortion in bovines, [...]

   • 1919 March 19, author not named, The Mud Larks, in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, 2004 Gutenberg edition,

     I handed it back to him, explaining that he had come to the wrong shop--unless he were a horse, of course. If he were and could provide his own nosebag, head-stall and Army Form 1640, testifying that he was guiltless of mange, ophthalmia or epizootic lymphangitis, I would do what I could for him.

   • 1933, British Veterinary Journal, Volume 89, page 74,

     The parasites important in Britain do, however, by themselves constitute a most serious source of loss to pig breeders — probably at least as serious as that caused by the various more spectacular but more epizootic bacterial diseases.

2. (geology, rare) Containing fossils.
   • 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays, pages 160-161:

     Hence their primary division is into primeval and secondary or Epizootic. And the epizootic mountains are still farther distinguishable into original and derivative.

3. Relating to epizoa; epizoic.

Antonyms

• enzootic

Derived terms

• antiepizootic
• epizootically
• epizootize

Related terms

• epizoology
• panzootic
• zootic
• epidemic
• pandemic
• endemic

References

Romanian

Etymology

From French épizootique

Adjective

epizootic m or n (feminine singular epizootic?, masculine plural epizootici, feminine and neuter plural epizootice)

1. epizootic

Declension