prevalence

See also: prévalence

English

Etymology

From Middle French prévalence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛvələns/
• (variant) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈveɪləns/ (modelled on prevail)

• Audio (US):

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Noun

prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)

1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
2. (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

Related terms

• prevail
• prevalent

Translations

wide extension

• Bulgarian: преобладаване n (preobladavane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流行 (zh) (liúxíng), 盛行 (zh) (shèngxíng), 普遍 (zh) (pǔbiàn), 廣泛／广泛 (zh) (guǎngfàn)

• Dutch: het heersen, het algemeen voorkomen, verspreiding (nl) f
• Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi), vallitsevuus, prevalenssi (fi)
• French: prédominance (fr) f
• German: weite Verbreitung f, Vorherrschen n, Verbreitetsein n, starkes Vorkommen n
• Indonesian: prevalensi (id)
• Irish: leitheadúlacht f
• Romanian: prevalență (ro) f
• Russian: преобладание (ru) n (preobladanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: надмоћност f (nadmoćnost)
• Spanish: predominancia (es) f, predominio (es) m, preponderancia f, prevalencia (es) f

number of cases compared to a total population

• Arabic: اِنْتِشَار (ar) m (intišār)
• Bulgarian: инцидентност f (incidentnost)
• Dutch: overwicht (nl) n
• Finnish: sairastavuus (fi)
• French: prévalence (fr)
• German: Prävalenz (de) f, Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit f
• Indonesian: prevalensi (id)
• Italian: prevalenza (it)
• Portuguese: prevalência
• Russian: распространённость (ru) f (rasprostranjónnostʹ)
• Spanish: prevalencia (es)
• Ukrainian: поши́реність f (pošýrenistʹ)

See also

• incidence

Further reading

• “prevalence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “prevalence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɛvalɛnt͡sɛ]

Noun

prevalence f

1. (epidemiology) prevalence

   Synonym: výskyt

Declension

Declension of prevalence (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	prevalence	prevalence
genitive	prevalence	prevalencí
dative	prevalenci	prevalencím
accusative	prevalenci	prevalence
vocative	prevalence	prevalence
locative	prevalenci	prevalencích
instrumental	prevalencí	prevalencemi

Related terms

• See vale

Further reading

• prevalence in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• prevalence in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• prevalence in Internetová jazyková příručka