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pestis.

disease, plague, pestilence, infection

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈpɛs.tɪs]Classical-Latin[ˈpɛs.tis]

  1. disease, plague, pestilence, infection

    declension-3 · feminine

  2. a pest

    declension-3 · feminine

  3. destruction, ruin, death

    declension-3 · feminine
Where this word comes from

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”).

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