rubella

English

Etymology

From Latin rubellus (“reddish”), diminutive of ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈbɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

rubella (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A mild disease caused by the infecting the respiratory tract, and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollen lymph nodes.

Synonyms

• (mild disease): epidemic roseola, French measles, German measles, Liberty measles, three-day measles, 3-day measles, false measles

Translations

disease caused by the Rubella virus infecting the respiratory tract

• Armenian: կարմրախտ (hy) (karmraxt)
• Azerbaijani: məxmərək (az)
• Belarusian: красну́ха f (krasnúxa)
• Bulgarian: рубеола (bg) f (rubeola)
• Catalan: rubèola f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風疹／风疹 (zh) (fēngzhěn), 风疹 (zh) (fēngzhěn)

• Czech: zarděnky (cs) f pl
• Danish: røde hunde
• Esperanto: rubeolo
• Finnish: vihurirokko (fi)
• French: rubéole (fr) f
• German: Röteln (de) pl
• Greek: ερυθρά (el) f (erythrá)
• Hebrew: אַדֶּמֶת f (adémet)
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• Hungarian: rózsahimlő (hu), rubeola (hu)
• Irish: bruitíneach dhearg f
• Italian: rosolia (it) f
• Japanese: 風疹 (ふうしん, fūshin)
• Luxembourgish: Riselen (lb) pl
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: różyczka (pl) f, kur (pl) m
• Portuguese: rubéola (pt) f
• Russian: красну́ха (ru) f (krasnúxa)
• Slovak: ružienka, rubeola (sk)
• Sicilian: russànija (scn) f
• Spanish: rubéola (es) f
• Tagalog: tigdas-hangin
• Turkish: kızamıkçık (tr)
• Ukrainian: красну́ха f (krasnúxa)
• Welsh: brech goch yr Almaen f, y frech Almaenig f, rwbela m

Anagrams

• rulable

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) rubella

1. inflection of rubellus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) rubellā

1. ablative feminine singular of rubellus