legionela

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Legionella. Compare Spanish legionela.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.ʒi.oˈnɛ.lɐ/ [le.ʒɪ.oˈnɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /le.ʒjoˈnɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.ʒi.oˈnɛ.lɐ/ [le.ʒɪ.oˈnɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /le.ʒjoˈnɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.ʒi.oˈnɛ.la/ [le.ʒɪ.oˈnɛ.la], (faster pronunciation) /le.ʒjoˈnɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨ.ʒjuˈnɛ.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: le‧gi‧o‧ne‧la

Noun

legionela f (plural legionelas)

1. Legionnaires' disease

Related terms

• legião
• legionário
• ler

 

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lexjoˈnela/ [le.xjoˈne.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: le‧gio‧ne‧la

Noun

legionela f (uncountable)

1. Legionnaires' disease
   • 2016 December, “Hermana Paciencia: una gran sonrisa contra el Ébola - Diario Rombe”, in Diario Rombe‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 December 2020:

     por qué se le ha dado bombo a esta enfermedad y no otras como a la legionela cuando ésta se ha cobrado 10 muertes (8 más que el ébola)?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “legionela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16