cholera

See also: Cholera and choléra

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləɹə/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: cho‧le‧ra

Noun

cholera (countable and uncountable, plural choleras)

1. (pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by 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

Terms derived from cholera

• 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

• Armenian: խոլերա (hy) (xolera)
• Catalan: còlera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 霍亂, 霍乱 (fok³ lyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 霍亂 (zh), 霍乱 (zh) (huòluàn)

• Czech: cholera (cs) f
• Danish: kolera (da) c
• Dinka: yäcpou
• Dutch: cholera (nl)
• Finnish: kolera (fi)
• French: choléra (fr) m
• German: Cholera (de) f
• Greek: χολέρα (el) f (choléra)
• Gujarati: કોગળિયું (kogaḷiyũ)
• Hebrew: כּוֹלֶרָה‎‎ (he) f (koléra), חֳלִירַע‎‎ (kholéra)
• Hungarian: kolera (hu)
• Italian: colera (it)
• Japanese: コレラ (ja) (korera)

• Kalmyk: оңһадг (oñhadg)
• Malay: penyakit taun
• 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)
• Spanish: cólera (es) m
• Swahili: kipindupindu (sw)
• Swedish: kolera (sv)
• Tagalog: kolera
• Thai: อหิวาต์ (th) (à-hì-waa)
• Turkish: kolera (tr)
• Vietnamese: bệnh tả

See also

• gastroenteritis

Anagrams

• Laroche, achelor, chorale, choreal

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Czech

Noun

cholera f

1. cholera

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxoː.lə.ˌraː/

• Audio

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Noun

cholera f, m (uncountable)

1. cholera

Related terms

• klere
• kolere

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.le.ra/, [ˈkʰɔ.ɫɛ.ra]

Noun

cholera f (genitive cholerae); first declension

1. cholera

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cholera	cholerae
genitive	cholerae	cholerārum
dative	cholerae	cholerīs
accusative	choleram	cholerās
ablative	cholerā	cholerīs
vocative	cholera	cholerae

Descendants

• Russian: холе́ра (xoléra)
• French: colère, choléra

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, 1883–1887)
• cholera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɔˈlɛ.ra/

• Audio

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Noun

cholera f

1. cholera

Declension

declension of cholera

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

Interjection

cholera!

1. damn!

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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 Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk