bubonic plague, the plague · any of various unrelated epidemic diseases affecting animals · anything that negatively affects vast areas, especially a natural disaster
eş: Pestilenz, Schwarzer Tod, Pestepidemie
köken: 16th century, from Latin pestis, in part through Middle French peste. Popular shortening of Middle High German pestilencie (14th c.), from related Latin pestilentia, may also have contributed (though this is impossible to prove).
köken: Probably from Latin cyma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”). The meaning was probably derived from the swellings from diseases such as the bubonic plague. Compare also Aromanian ciumã (“peak, summit”), which has a meaning shared by most other Romance languages, and Albanian qime.
disease, plague, pestilence, infection · a pest · destruction, ruin, death
çekim: çoğul pestēs · tamlayan pestium
zıt: salūs, valētūdō
köken: Of uncertain origin. Equated with a supposed second element of Younger Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬌𐬱 (kapastiš), the name of an illness, which beside ka-pastiš has its morphological boundaries also rendered kap-astiš and been identified with Persian کبست (kabast, “colocynth; deadly poison”), with seemingly the suffix as Persian دهمست (dahmast, “laurel”) if not اسپست (aspest, “lucerne”).
From Proto-Finnic *rutto. Originally an adjective meaning "fast, quick, short-tempered"; originally plague was ruttotauti, a disease that spread quickly. Cognate with Karelian ruttoh (“quickly”), Estonian ruttu (“quickly”), Votic rutto (“hurry”).