dengue

Significat (Anglès)

An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

Conceptes

dengue

Sinònims

dengue fever

breakbone fever

dandy fever

Traduccions

dengue

dengue

dengue

fièvre de dengue

حمى الضنك

dang

Denguefieber

δάγκειος πυρετός

δάγγειος πυρετός

Dengue

Dengue

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈdɛŋɡi/

Etimologia (Anglès)

From West Indian Spanish dengue in 1828, from the Kiswahili term dinga (in full kidingapopo or kidinga pepo, "a kind of sudden cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit", dinga itself meaning sudden cramp-like seizure). The borrowed term changed to dengue in Spanish due to this word existing in Spanish with the meaning "fastidiousness" and the folk etymology referring to the dislike of movement by affected patients of chikungunya which was also reffered to as dengue until the first half of the 20th century.