typhus

English

Etymology

From New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhubh-, extended form of *dheu- (“scatter like dust”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪfəs/
• Rhymes: -aɪfəs

Noun

typhus (usually uncountable, plural typhuses)

1. (pathology) One of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

Synonyms

• camp fever
• gaol fever
• hospital fever
• jail fever
• prison fever
• putrid fever
• ship fever

Derived terms

• typhous
• typhus fever
• chigger-borne typhus
• endemic typhus
• epidemic typhus
• flea-borne typhus

• murine typhus
• scrub typhus
• rat typhus
• tick typhus
• tsutsugamushi
• urban typhus

Translations

disease

• Arabic: تِيفُوس m (tīfūs), تِيفُوس m (tifus)
• Asturian: tifus m
• Catalan: tifus (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斑疹傷寒／斑疹伤寒 (zh) (bānzhěn shānghán), 斑疹伤寒 (zh) (bānzhěnshānghán)

• Czech: tyfus (cs) m
• Danish: tyfus c
• Dutch: tyfus (nl)
• Faroese: týfus n
• Finnish: pilkkukuume (fi)
• French: typhus (fr) m
• Galician: tifo (gl) m
• German: Typhus (de) m
• Greek: τύφος (el) (týfos)
• Hungarian: tífusz (hu), kiütéses tífusz, flekktífusz (hu)
• Indonesian: tifus (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: チフス (ja) (chifusu)
• Kazakh: сүзек (süzek)
• Korean: 티푸스 (ko) (tipuseu)
• Malay: tifus
• Maori: karawaka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tyfus m

  Nynorsk: tyfus m

• Polish: tyfus (pl) m
• Portuguese: tifo (pt) m
• Romanian: tifos (ro) n
• Russian: тиф (ru) m (tif), сыпно́й тиф m (sypnój tif)
• Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-ballach m
• Spanish: tifus (es) m
• Swedish: tyfus (sv) c
• Turkish: tifüs (tr)

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French

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek; see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.fys/

• Audio:

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Noun

typhus m (plural typhus)

1. typhus

Further reading

• “typhus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.