χολέρα

• χολέρρη (kholérrhē) — Ionic

A medical expression. Formally it may be compared with ὑστέρα (hustéra, “uterus, womb”) and names of diseases like ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”) and ὕδερος (húderos, “dropsy”). Perhaps, this word is a substantivization from unattested *χολερός (*kholerós), with shift of accent. According to Beekes, a basic derivation is more likely from χολή (kholḗ, “gall, bile”) than from χολάς (kholás, “entrails, guts”), but a Pre-Greek origin cannot be ruled out. Irish galar (“sickness, illness”) has to be kept separate.

χολέρᾰ • (kholéra) f (genitive χολέρᾱς); first declension

1. cholera, a disease in which the humors of the body are violently discharged by vomiting and stool
2. (in general) vomit, nausea

• Greek: χολέρα (choléra)
• → Latin: cholera

• “χολέρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χολέρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χολέρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1641

Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra)

• IPA^(key): /xoˈle.ɾa/

χολέρα • (choléra) f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) cholera

• χολέρα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
• χολέρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el