anthrax

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “abscess, boil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.θɹæks/

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anthrax (usually uncountable, plural anthraxes)

1. (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
2. The human disease that can occur in humans through contact with infected herbivores, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans, with symptoms including lesions on the skin or in the lungs, often fatal.

• charbon
• Cumberland disease
• malignant edema
• Siberian plague
• splenic fever
• ragsorter's disease
• woolsorter's disease

• anthracite
• anthracene

• antrax

• IPA^(key): [ˈantraks]

anthrax m inan

1. anthrax (an acute infectious bacterial disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, which can occur in humans)

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaks/

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anthrax m (uncountable)

1. anthrax

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

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈan.tʰraks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan̪.t̪raks]

anthrax m (genitive anthracis); third declension

1. cinnabar
2. a virulent ulcer

Third-declension noun.

• “anthrax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anthrax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anthrax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers