nosema

See also: Nosema

English

Etymology

From nosema disease or directly from translingual Nosema (a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae),[1] from Latin nosema, from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēmă, disease, sickness, plague, affliction).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: no‧se‧ma

Noun

nosema (uncountable) (insect pathology, informal)

  1. Nosema disease:
    1. An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
      • 2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times[1]:
        There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.
      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nosema.
    2. (possibly dated) Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.

References

  1. ^ Nosema, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēmă, disease, sickness, plague, affliction).

Pronunciation

Noun

nosēma n (genitive nosēmatis); third declension

  1. disease
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:nosema.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative nosēma nosēmata
genitive nosēmatis nosēmatum
dative nosēmatī nosēmatibus
accusative nosēma nosēmata
ablative nosēmate nosēmatibus
vocative nosēma nosēmata

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nosema.

Noun

nosema f (uncountable)

  1. nosema

Declension

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References

  • nosema in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN