influenza

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.flu.ˈɛn.tsə/

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influenza (countable and uncountable, plural influenzas or influenze)

1. (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".

• flu
• grippe, grip

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

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influenza m or f (plural influenzas)

1. (obsolete) influenza

   Synonym: grippe

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

From Italian influenza, from Latin influentia.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈiɱfluɛnzɒ]
• Hyphenation: inf‧lu‧en‧za
• Rhymes: -zɒ

influenza (plural influenzák)

1. (pathology) flu, influenza

• influenza in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /in.fluˈɛn.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -ɛntsa
• Hyphenation: in‧flu‧èn‧za

From Latin īnfluentia.

influenza f (plural influenze)

1. influence

   Synonym: influsso

2. influenza, flu

• influenza aviaria
• influenzale
• influenzare

• influente

• → English: influenza
  • → Bengali: ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা (inphluẏenja)
  • → Korean: 인플루엔자 (inpeulluenja)
  • → Zulu: imfuluwenza
• → German: Influenza
• → Hungarian: influenza
• → Spanish: influenza
• → Swedish: influensa

influenza

1. inflection of influenzare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• influenza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Italian influenza, from Latin īnfluentia. Doublet of influencia.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /influˈenθa/ [ĩɱ.fluˈẽn̟.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /influˈensa/ [ĩɱ.fluˈẽn.sa]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -enθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensa
• Syllabification: in‧flu‧en‧za

influenza f (plural influenzas)

1. influenza

   Synonym: gripe

• “influenza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014