influenza

See also: Influenza

English

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influenza

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnzə

Noun

influenza (countable and uncountable, plural influenzas or influenze)

2. (pathology) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
   • 2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 32:

     In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours.
     This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people".

Synonyms

• flu
• grippe, grip

Derived terms

• affluenza
• Asian influenza
• avian influenza
• Hong Kong influenza
• influenzal
• influenzalike
• influenzavirus
• Mexican influenza
• parainfluenza
• postinfluenza
• Spanish influenza
• superinfluenza
• swine influenza

Related terms

• affluence
• affluent
• circumfluence
• circumfluent
• circumfluous
• confluence
• confluent
• conflux
• defluent
• defluxion
• diffluence
• diffluent
• difluence
• difluent
• effluent
• flu
• fluctuance
• fluctuant
• fluctuate
• fluctuation
• fluctuous
• fluency
• fluent
• fluid
• fluidity
• flume
• flumen
• fluor
• fluorian
• fluoric
• fluoride
• fluorinate
• fluorination
• fluorine
• fluorite
• fluvial
• fluviality
• flux
• fluxion
• influence
• influent
• influx
• mellifluous
• profluence
• profluent
• refluence
• refluency
• refluent
• superfluous
• transfluence
• transfluent

Descendants

• → Bengali: ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা (inphluẏenja)
• → Korean: 인플루엔자 (inpeulluenja)
• → Zulu: imfuluwenza

Translations

an acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs

Arabic: إِنْفْلُوَنْزَا f (ʔinfluwanzā) North Levantine Arabic: گريب m (grīb) Armenian: գրիպ (hy) (grip) Belarusian: грып m (hryp) Bulgarian: грип (bg) m (grip), инфлуе́нца (bg) f (influénca) Catalan: grip (ca) f, influença (ca) f Cebuano: trangkaso Chamicuro: e'tes̈huli Chinese: Cantonese: 流感 (lau4 gam2) Mandarin: 流行性感冒 (zh) (liúxíngxìng-gǎnmào), 流感 (zh) (liúgǎn) Czech: chřipka (cs) f Danish: influenza (da) c Dutch: griep (nl) f Esperanto: gripo, influenco Estonian: gripp Faroese: beinkrím n Finnish: influenssa (fi) French: grippe (fr) f Galician: gripe f Georgian: გრიპი (griṗi), ინფლუენცა (inpluenca) (dated) German: Grippe (de) f, Influenza (de) f Alemannic German: Grippi n Greenlandic: nualluk Hungarian: influenza (hu) Icelandic: inflúensa (is) f, flensa (is) f Indonesian: influenza (id) Italian: influenza (it) f, febbre (it) f Japanese: 流行性感冒 (ja) (りゅうこうせいかんぼう, ryūkōsei-kanbō), インフルエンザ (ja) (infuruenza), (abbreviation) インフル (ja) (infuru) Korean: 인플루엔자 (ko) (inpeulluenja), 감기(感氣) (ko) (gamgi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: arsim (ku) Lithuanian: gripas m Macedonian: грип m (grip) Malay: influenza Maori: rewharewha, tarutawhiti Navajo: tahoniigááh, atsʼiiʼ honiigaah Persian: آنفولانزا (fa) (ânfulânzâ) Polish: grypa (pl) f Portuguese: gripe (pt) f Romanian: gripă (ro) f Russian: грипп (ru) m (gripp), инфлюэ́нца (ru) f (infljuénca) Scottish Gaelic: cnatan mòr m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: грипа f, грип m, инфлуенца f Roman: gripa (sh) f, grip m, influenca (sh) f Slovak: chrípka (sk) f Slovene: gripa (sl) f, influenca f Spanish: gripe (es) f, (Colombia, Mexico) gripa (es) f, influenza (es) f Swedish: influensa (sv) c, flunsa (sv) c Tagalog: trangkaso Turkish: grip (tr), enflüenza Ukrainian: грип m (hryp) Vietnamese: bệnh cúm, cúm (vi) Volapük: grip Welsh: ffliw West Frisian: gryp Zulu: imfuluwenza class 9

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

influenza

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Etymology

From Italian influenza, from Latin influentia.

Noun

influenza c (singular definite influenzaen, plural indefinite influenzaer)

1. (pathology) influenza, flu

Inflection

Declension of influenza

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	influenza	influenzaen	influenzaer	influenzaerne
genitive	influenzas	influenzaens	influenzaers	influenzaernes

Derived terms

• aviær influenza
• fugleinfluenza
• influenzaepidemi
• influenzasymptom
• influenzavirus
• svineinfluenza

References

• “influenza” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France):

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Noun

influenza m or f (plural influenzas)

1. (obsolete) influenza

   Synonym: grippe

Descendants

• → Persian: آنفولانزا (ânfulânzâ)

Further reading

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