cholera

See also: Cholera and choléra

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləɹə/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: cho‧le‧ra

NounEdit

cholera (countable and uncountable, plural choleras)

1. (pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus

     'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from cholera

• Asiatic cholera
• chicken cholera
• choleraic

• cholera infantum
• cholera morbus
• choleroid

• English cholera
• epidemic cholera
• fowl cholera

• hog cholera
• Indian cholera

Related termsEdit

• choler

TranslationsEdit

infectious disease

• Armenian: խոլերա (hy) (xolera)
• Catalan: còlera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 霍亂, 霍乱 (fok³ lyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 霍亂 (zh), 霍乱 (zh) (huòluàn)

• Czech: cholera (cs) f
• Danish: kolera (da) c
• Dutch: cholera (nl)
• Finnish: kolera (fi)
• French: choléra (fr) m
• German: Cholera (de) f
• Greek: χολέρα (el) f (choléra)
• Gujarati: કોલેરા (kolerā)
• Hebrew: כּוֹלֶרָה‏‎ (he) f (koléra), חֳלִירַע‏‎ (kholéra)
• Hungarian: kolera (hu)
• Italian: colera (it)
• Japanese: コレラ (ja) (korera)

• Kalmyk: оңһадг (oñhadg)
• Malay: penyakit taun
• Maori: korera, korera
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolera m

  Nynorsk: kolera m

• Persian: وبا‏‎ (fa) (vabâ)
• Polish: cholera (pl) f
• Portuguese: cólera (pt) f
• Russian: холе́ра (ru) f (xoléra)
• Spanish: cólera (es) m
• Swahili: kipindupindu (sw)
• Swedish: kolera (sv)
• Tagalog: kolera
• Thai: อหิวาต์ (th) (à-hì-waa)
• Turkish: kolera (tr)
• Vietnamese: bệnh tả

See alsoEdit

• gastroenteritis

AnagramsEdit

• Laroche, achelor, chorale, choreal

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

cholera f

1. cholera

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈxoː.lə.ˌraː/

NounEdit

cholera f, m (uncountable)

1. cholera

Related termsEdit

• klere
• kolere

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.le.ra/, [ˈkʰɔ.ɫɛ.ra]

NounEdit

cholera f (genitive cholerae); first declension

1. cholera

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cholera	cholerae
genitive	cholerae	cholerārum
dative	cholerae	cholerīs
accusative	choleram	cholerās
ablative	cholerā	cholerīs
vocative	cholera	cholerae

DescendantsEdit

• Russian: холе́ра (xoléra)
• French: colère, choléra

ReferencesEdit

• cholera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “cholera”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “cholera” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /xɔˈlɛra/

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

cholera f

1. cholera

DeclensionEdit

declension of cholera

	singular
nominative	cholera
genitive	cholery
dative	cholerze
accusative	cholerę
instrumental	cholerą
locative	cholerze
vocative	cholero

InterjectionEdit

cholera!

1. damn!

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SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔlɛra/

NounEdit

cholera f (genitive singular cholery, nominative plural cholery, genitive plural cholier, declension pattern of žena)

1. cholera

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cholera

	singular	plural
nominative	cholera	cholery
genitive	cholery	cholier
dative	cholere	cholerám
accusative	choleru	cholery
locative	cholere	cholerách
instrumental	cholerou	cholerami

Derived termsEdit

• cholerový

Further readingEdit

• cholera in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk