pandémie
French
Etymology
Composed by πᾶν (pân, “all”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”), on the model of épidémie. The Greek word πανδημία (pandimía) is itself a borrowing from the French word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑ̃.de.mi/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: pandémies
- Hyphenation: pan‧dé‧mie
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pandémie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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