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pestis

pestis noun: plague.

Noun

pestis (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) Plague.
    • page 198: [...] a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis.
    • page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that [of distemper].2014, John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner M.D., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN

Questions about pestis

What does pestis mean?
Pestis means plague.
What part of speech is pestis?
Pestis is a noun.

Words near pestis in the dictionary

  1. pestilentialness
  2. pestilentious
  3. pestilently
  4. pestily
  5. pesting
  6. pestis
  7. pestiviral
  8. pestivirus
  9. pestiviruses
  10. Pestișu Mic
  11. pestle

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