nosema
See also: Nosema
English
Etymology
From nosema disease or directly from translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”),[1] from Latin nosema, from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēma, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: no‧se‧ma
Noun
nosema (uncountable) (insect pathology, informal)
- Nosema disease:
- An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nosema.
- (possibly dated) Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.
- An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
References
- ^ “Nosema, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēma, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /noˈseː.ma/, [nɔˈs̠eːmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /noˈse.ma/, [noˈs̬ɛːmä]
- Hyphenation: no‧se‧ma
Noun
nosēma n (genitive nosēmatis); third declension
- disease
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:nosema.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nosēma | nosēmata |
Genitive | nosēmatis | nosēmatum |
Dative | nosēmatī | nosēmatibus |
Accusative | nosēma | nosēmata |
Ablative | nosēmate | nosēmatibus |
Vocative | nosēma | nosēmata |
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