zwarte dood

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • Zwarte Dood

Etymology

Calque from German schwarzer Tod (“black death”) or calque from Danish den sorte død (“the black death”) as a term for the plague epidemic, ultimately from a North Germanic language. See zwarte (“black”), dood (“death”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌzʋɑr.tə ˈdoːt/

Proper noun

zwarte dood m

  1. (historical) Black Death (plague epidemic of the mid-fourteenth century) [from ca. 1700]
  2. (obsolete) Metaphor for death, in particular an unusually bitter death.
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