virulence

English

Etymology

From Middle French virulence, from Late Latin virulentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪɹjələns/, /ˈvɪɹələns/

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Noun

virulence (countable and uncountable, plural virulences)

1. The state of being virulent.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 61:

     Francis was enraged at the interference, and opposition made him more in earnest; but just at this time, the civil war, which had hitherto left their part of the country comparatively quiet, arose with great virulence in their immediate vicinity.

2. A measure of how virulent a thing is.

Derived terms

• antivirulence
• avirulence
• cardiovirulence
• hypervirulence
• hypovirulence
• neurovirulence
• nonvirulence
• urovirulence

 

Translations

the state of being virulent

• Arabic: حدة الجرثوم
• Armenian: վիրուլենտություն (hy) (virulentutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: virulent (az)
• Basque: birulentzia
• Belarusian: вірулентнасць (viruljentnascʹ)
• Bengali: প্রকোপ (bn) (prokōp)
• Catalan: virulència
• Central Kurdish: ڤیرۆلەنس (vîrolenis)
• Chinese: 毒力 (zh)
• Czech: virulence
• Dutch: virulentie
• Estonian: virulentsus
• Finnish: virulenssi (fi)
• French: virulence (fr)
• German: Virulenz (de)
• Greek: λοιμοτοξικότητα f (loimotoxikótita), μολυσματικότητα (el) f (molysmatikótita)
• Hungarian: virulencia (hu)
• Indonesian: bakteri virulen
• Italian: virulenza (it)
• Kazakh: вируленттік (virulenttık)
• Kyrgyz: вируленттүүлүк (virulenttüülük)
• Latvian: virulence
• Macedonian: масовност (masovnost), патогеност (patogenost), вируленција (virulencija)
• Norwegian: virulens
• Norwegian Nynorsk: virulens
• Persian: ویرولانس
• Polish: wirulencja
• Portuguese: virulência (pt)
• Russian: вирулентность (ru) (virulentnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: virulencija (sh)
• Spanish: virulencia
• Swedish: virulens (sv)
• Thai: ศักยภาพก่อโรค
• Turkish: virülans (tr)
• Ukrainian: вірулентність (virulentnistʹ)
• Uzbek: virulentlik
• Vietnamese: độc lực (vi)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

virulence f (plural virulences)

1. virulence

Further reading

• “virulence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.