pestis

pestis (uncountable)

1. (uncommon) Plague.
   • 2014, John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner M.D., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     page 198: [...] a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis.
     page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that [of distemper].

• IP sets, pistes, spiest, spites, stipes

Borrowed from Latin pestis (“disease, plague”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛʃtiʃ]
• Hyphenation: pes‧tis
• Rhymes: -iʃ

pestis (plural pestisek)

1. plague

• pestisjárvány

• pestis 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

Of uncertain origin. Equated with a supposed second element of Younger Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬌𐬱 (kapastiš), the name of an illness,[1][2] which beside ka-pastiš has its morphological boundaries also rendered kap-astiš and been identified with Persian کبست (kabast, “colocynth; deadly poison”), with seemingly the suffix as Persian دهمست (dahmast, “laurel”) if not اسپست (aspest, “lucerne”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpes.tis/, [ˈpɛs̠t̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpes.tis/, [ˈpɛst̪is]

pestis f (genitive pestis); third declension

1. a disease, plague, pestilence

   Synonyms: morbus, aegritūdō, malum, valētūdō, labor, infirmitas, incommodum

   Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō

2. a pest
3. destruction, ruin, death

   Synonyms: perniciēs, interitus, ruīna, cruciātus, exitium, vulnus, cāsus, clādēs, perditiō, excidiō, excidium, lētum, dēstrūctiō

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• pestibilis
• pestifer
• pestilēns
• pestilentia
• pestilentus

• “pestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pestis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit
    
  • to bring mishap, ruin on a person: calamitatem, pestem inferre alicui
    
  • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: pestem alicui (in aliquem) machinari