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contagia

contagia is the plural of contagium.

Meaning of contagium

Noun

contagium (plural contagia)

  1. (archaic) contagion; contagious matter
    • And its escape [from certain diseases] is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, “nor any contagium of scarlet fever, nor any contagium of small-pox, had arisen spontaneously" within its limits.1865, John Simon, “Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Cattle Plague Commissioners”, in Report on the Origin, Propagation, Nature, and Treatment of the Cattle Plague, published 1866, page 42

Questions about contagia

What is contagia the plural of?
Contagia is the plural of contagium.

Words near contagia in the dictionary

  1. contadine
  2. contadini
  3. contadino
  4. contadinos
  5. contado
  6. contagia
  7. contagiogram
  8. contagiograms
  9. contagion
  10. contagioned
  11. contagionism

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