πανούκλα
Greek edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin panicula (“swelling, tumour”).
The figurative sense "troublesome woman" has been extracted from the phrase έξω κούκλα, μέσα πανούκλα (éxo koúkla, mésa panoúkla).
Noun edit
πανούκλα • (panoúkla) f (plural πανούκλες)
- (medicine) plague
- (veterinary, specifically) disease of pigs
- (figuratively) plague (of locusts; of Nazis)
- (figuratively) troublesome woman
Declension edit
declension of πανούκλα
Derived terms edit
- έξω κούκλα, μέσα πανούκλα (éxo koúkla, mésa panoúkla, “outside: a doll; inside: a plague”)
See also edit
- πανδημία f (pandimía, “pandemic”)
Further reading edit
- πανούκλα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
- πανούκλα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el