malaria

Senso (Inglese)

1. (countable, uncountable) A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.

Concetti

malaria

paludismo

febbre terziana

sinonimi

fever

🤒

ague

chill

cold

🥶

swamp fever

paludism

plump

quartan

shudder

wart

have fever

malaria tropical disease

chills and fever

mosquito fever

pestilential pathogen

fever and chills

cough

emaciated

heat

malarial fever

Traduzioni

paludisme

malaria

Malaria

malaria

malária

malaria

paludismo

ελονοσία

malària

ملاريا

sıtma

Sumpffieber

paludisme

paludisme

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/məˈlɛə.ɹi.ə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Introduced into English by the Scottish geologist John MacCulloch (1773–1835). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).