cholera

See also: Cholera and choléra

English

Etymology

From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra, “cholera”). Doublet of choler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləɹə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləɹə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: chol‧e‧ra

Noun

cholera (countable and uncountable, plural choleras)

1. (pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus

     'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'

Derived terms

• Asiatic cholera
• British cholera
• chicken cholera
• choleraic
• cholera infantum
• cholera morbus
• choleroid
• English cholera
• epidemic cholera
• fowl cholera
• hog cholera
• Indian cholera

 

Related terms

• choler

Translations

infectious disease

• Arabic: كُولِيرَا m (kōlīrā)
• Armenian: խոլերա (hy) (xolera)
• Azerbaijani: vəba, xolera
• Bashkir: ваба (vaba)
• Belarusian: хале́ра f (xaljéra)
• Bulgarian: холе́ра f (holéra)
• Burmese: ဝမ်းရောဂါ (my) (wam:rau:ga), ကာလဝမ်း (my) (kala.wam:)
• Catalan: còlera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 霍亂／霍乱 (fok³ lyun⁶), 霍乱 (fok³ lyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 霍亂／霍乱 (zh) (huòluàn), 霍乱 (zh) (huòluàn), 虎列拉 (zh) (hǔlièlā) (dated)

• Czech: cholera (cs) f
• Danish: kolera (da) c
• Dinka: yäcpou
• Dutch: cholera (nl)
• Esperanto: ĥolero
• Estonian: koolera
• Finnish: kolera (fi)
• French: choléra (fr) m
• Georgian: ქოლერა (kolera)
• German: Cholera (de) f
• Greek: χολέρα (el) f (choléra)

  Ancient: χολέρα f (kholéra)

• Gujarati: કોગળિયું (gu) (kogaḷiyũ)
• Hebrew: כּוֹלֶרָה (he) f (koléra), חֳלִירַע (kholéra)
• Hindi: कॉलरा (kŏlrā), हैज़ा m (haizā)
• Hungarian: kolera (hu)
• Icelandic: kólera (is) f
• Irish: calar m
• Italian: colera (it)
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• Japanese: コレラ (ja) (korera)
• Kalmyk: оңһадг (oñğadg)
• Kazakh: тырысқақ (tyrysqaq)
• Korean: 콜레라 (ko) (kollera)
• Kyrgyz: холера (holera)
• Latvian: holera f
• Lithuanian: cholera f
• Malay: penyakit taun
• Malayalam: കോളറ (ml) (kōḷaṟa), ഛർദ്യാതിസാരം (chaṟdyātisāraṁ), വിഷൂചിക (ml) (viṣūcika)
• Maori: korera, korara, mate korara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolera m

  Nynorsk: kolera m

• Persian: وبا (fa) (vabâ)
• Polish: cholera (pl) f
• Portuguese: cólera (pt) f
• Russian: холе́ра (ru) f (xoléra)
• Samoan: kolela
• Slovak: cholera f
• Spanish: cólera (es) m
• Swahili: kipindupindu (sw)
• Swedish: kolera (sv)
• Tagalog: kolera
• Tajik: вабо (vabo)
• Tatar: ваба (tt) (waba)
• Thai: อหิวาต์ (th) (à-hì-waa)
• Tocharian B: iweru, wīcuṣik
• Turkish: kolera (tr), vebâ (tr)
• Ukrainian: холе́ра f (xoléra)
• Urdu: ہیضہ m (haizā)
• Uzbek: vabo (uz)
• Vietnamese: (bệnh) tả
• Welsh: colera m, geri m

See also

• gastroenteritis

Anagrams

• Laroche, achelor, chorale, choreal

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxolɛra]
• Hyphenation: cho‧le‧ra

Noun

cholera f

1. cholera

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cholera, from Ancient Greek [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxoː.ləˌraː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cho‧le‧ra

Noun

cholera f or m (uncountable)

1. cholera

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: kólera

Related terms

• klere
• kolere

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χολέρᾰ (kholéra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.le.ra/, [ˈkʰɔɫ̪ɛrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.le.ra/, [ˈkɔːlerä]

Noun

cholera f (genitive cholerae); first declension

1. cholera

Declension

First-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	cholera	cholerae
genitive	cholerae	cholerārum
dative	cholerae	cholerīs
accusative	choleram	cholerās
ablative	cholerā	cholerīs
vocative	cholera	cholerae

Descendants

• Catalan: còlera
• English: cholera
• French: colère, choléra
• Italian: collera
• Russian: холе́ра (xoléra)
• Spanish: cólera

References

• “cholera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cholera 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)
• cholera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cholera, from Ancient Greek χολέρᾰ (kholéra).

Noun

cholera f

1. (pathology) cholera

Declension

Declension of cholera

	singular
nominative	cholera
genitive	cholery
dative	cholerze
accusative	cholerę
instrumental	cholerą
locative	cholerze
vocative	cholero

Interjection

cholera

1. damn!

Derived terms

adjective

• cholerny

 

noun

• cholerstwo

 

Related terms

adverb

• cholernie

 

Further reading

• cholera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cholera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Slovak

Etymology

From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔlɛra/

Noun

cholera f (genitive singular cholery, nominative plural cholery, genitive plural cholier, declension pattern of žena)

1. cholera

Declension

Declension of cholera

	singular	plural
nominative	cholera	cholery
genitive	cholery	cholier
dative	cholere	cholerám
accusative	choleru	cholery
locative	cholere	cholerách
instrumental	cholerou	cholerami

Derived terms

• cholerový

Further reading

• “cholera”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024