anthrax

See also: Anthrax

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “abscess, boil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.θɹæks/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

anthrax (usually uncountable, plural anthraxes)

1. (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
2. The human disease that can occur in humans through contact with infected herbivores, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans, with symptoms including lesions on the skin or in the lungs, often fatal.

Synonyms

• charbon
• Cumberland disease
• malignant edema
• Siberian plague
• splenic fever
• woolsorter's disease

Derived terms

• Amerithrax
• anthracic
• anthracoid
• anthraxlike
• antianthrax
• glossanthrax
• nonanthrax

 

Related terms

• anthracite
• anthracene

Translations

disease

• Albanian: plasje (sq) f, fshikëz e mirë f
• Arabic: جَمْرَة خَبِيثَة f (jamra(t) ḵabīṯa)
• Aragonese: banzo m
• Armenian: սիբիրախտ (hy) (sibiraxt)
• Azerbaijani: qarayara
• Basque: karbunko
• Belarusian: сібірская язва f (sibirskaja jazva)
• Bengali: অ্যানথ্রাক্স (bn) (ênthraks)
• Breton: serk ?
• Bulgarian: а̀нтракс (bg) m (àntraks)
• Burmese: ထောင့်သန်းနာ (my) (htaung.san:na)
• Catalan: àntrax m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 炭疽病 (zh) (tànjūbìng), 炭疽熱／炭疽热 (zh) (tànjūrè), 炭疽 (zh) (tànjū)

• Czech: anthrax m
• Danish: miltbrand ?
• Dutch: miltvuur (nl) n, antrax (nl) m
• Esperanto: antrakso
• Estonian: siberi katk
• Faroese: miltbrandur m, miltsýki n, miltisbruni m
• Finnish: pernarutto (fi)
• French: charbon (fr) m
• Galician: carbúnculo m, carbunco m
• Georgian: ჯილეხი (ǯilexi), ციმბირის წყლული (cimbiris c̣q̇luli), ხუზარა (xuzara)
• German: Milzbrand (de) m
• Greek: άνθρακας (el) m (ánthrakas)
• Hebrew: גחלת (he) f
• Hindi: बिसहरिया ? (bisahriyā)
• Hungarian: lépfene (hu)
• Icelandic: miltisbrandur m
• Ido: antraxo (io)
• Indonesian: antraks (id)
• Irish: antrasc m
• Italian: antrace (it) m
• Japanese: 炭疽症 (たんそしょう, tansoshō)
• Javanese: antraks
• Kalmyk: моом гем (moom gem)
• Kazakh: жамандат (jamandat), сібір жарасы (sıbır jarasy)
• Khmer: អង់ត្រាក់ (ʼɑngtrak)
• Korean: 탄저병(炭疽病) (tanjeobyeong)
• Lithuanian: juodligė f
• Macedonian: антракс m (antraks), црн пришт m (crn prišt)
• Malay: antraks
• Manx: anthracs m
• Northern Sami: dáđvesonahat, dávdesonahat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: miltbrann (no) m

  Nynorsk: miltbrann m

• Persian: سیاه‌زخم (siyâh-zaxm)
• Polish: wąglik (pl) m, antraks m
• Portuguese: carbúnculo m, antraz m
• Romanian: antrax (ro) n
• Russian: сиби́рская я́зва (ru) f (sibírskaja jázva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀нтракс m, бедрѐница f, про́стрел m, црни пришт m

  Roman: àntraks (sh) m, bedrènica (sh) f, próstrel (sh) m, crni prišt (sh) m

• Sicilian: cravunchiu (scn) m
• Slovak: slezinová sneť f
• Slovene: vranični prisad m
• Southern Altai: кӧк оору (kök ooru)
• Spanish: carbunco (es) m
• Swahili: kimeta
• Swedish: mjältbrand (sv) ?
• Tagalog: antraks
• Tamil: ஆந்த்ராக்ஸ் (āntrāks)
• Thai: แอนแทรกซ์ (aen-trâek)
• Turkish: şarbon (tr)
• Ukrainian: сибірка f (sybirka)
• Uyghur: كۈيدۈرگە (küydürge), كۆيدۈرگە (köydürge)
• Vietnamese: bệnh than
• Welsh: clwyf du m, clyfed y ddueg m
• Yakut: сотуун өлүү (sotuun ölüü)

Czech

Alternative forms

• antrax

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈantraks]

Noun

anthrax m inan

1. anthrax (an acute infectious bacterial disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, which can occur in humans)

Declension

Declension of anthrax (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	anthrax	anthraxy
genitive	anthraxu	anthraxů
dative	anthraxu	anthraxům
accusative	anthrax	anthraxy
vocative	anthraxe	anthraxy
locative	anthraxu	anthraxech
instrumental	anthraxem	anthraxy

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaks/

• Audio:

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Noun

anthrax m (uncountable)

1. anthrax

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tʰraks/, [ˈän̪t̪ʰräks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.traks/, [ˈän̪t̪räks]

Noun

anthrax m (genitive anthracis); third declension

1. cinnabar
2. a virulent ulcer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	anthrax	anthracēs
Genitive	anthracis	anthracum
Dative	anthracī	anthracibus
Accusative	anthracem	anthracēs
Ablative	anthrace	anthracibus
Vocative	anthrax	anthracēs

References

• “anthrax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anthrax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anthrax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers