pandemic

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin pandēmus (“affecting all the people, public, general”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + δῆμος (dêmos, “the people”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛmɪk

Adjective

pandemic (comparative more pandemic, superlative most pandemic)

1. Widespread; general.
2. (medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.

   World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.

Synonyms

• (widespread): common, ubiquitous; see also Thesaurus:widespread

Translations

epidemic

• Catalan: pandèmic
• Czech: pandemický
• German: pandemisch (1,2)
• Greek: πανδημικός (el) (pandimikós)
• Icelandic: heimsfaraldur (is) m
• Italian: pandemico (it)
• Lithuanian: pandeminis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pandemisk

  Nynorsk: pandemisk

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• Persian: دنیاگیر (fa) (donyâ-gir)
• Portuguese: pandémico (Portugal), pandêmico (Brazil)
• Russian: пандеми́ческий (ru) (pandɛmíčeskij)
• Slovak: pandemický
• Swedish: pandemisk

Noun

pandemic (plural pandemics)

1. A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
   • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 64:

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:pandemic

Related terms

• endemic
• epidemic

Translations

pandemic disease

• Catalan: pandèmia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大流行病 (zh) (dà liúxíngbìng)

• Czech: pandemie (cs) f
• Danish: pandemi (da) c
• Dutch: pandemie (nl) f
• Finnish: pandemia (fi)
• French: pandémie (fr) f
• German: Pandemie (de) f
• Greek: πανδημία (el) f (pandimía)
• Italian: pandemia (it) f
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• Japanese: パンデミック (ja) (pandemikku)
• Lithuanian: pandemija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pandemi m

  Nynorsk: pandemi m

• Polish: pandemia (pl) f
• Portuguese: pandemia (pt) f
• Russian: пандеми́я (ru) f (pandɛmíja)
• Slovak: pandémia (sk)
• Spanish: pandemia (es)
• Swedish: pandemi (sv) c

See also

• epizootic
• enzootic
• plague
• Black Death