contagion
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcontagion (countable and uncountable, plural contagions)
- A disease spread by contact.
- The spread or transmission of such a disease.
- Synonym: infection
- (figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
- The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 242:
- It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors, and, having assisted in saving the lives of the young ladies, gave them an interest in their pleasures, and a real delight in seeing those fair young faces lighted up with joy.
- (finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
- 2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro[1]:
- And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.
- The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.
- (finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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editTranslations
editdisease spread by contact
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transmission of a contagious disease
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spread of anything harmful
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finance: situation in which a shock spreads
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finance: resulting recession or crisis
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See also
edit- quarantine
- Contagious disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom Latin contāgiōnem.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editcontagion f (plural contagions)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “contagion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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