🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

pandemia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pan.deˈmi.a

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pandemic/pænˈdɛm.ɪk/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2100 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La pandemia ha colpito l'economia globale."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population, typically spanning multiple countries or continents.

    "The global response to the recent pandemic involved unprecedented international scientific cooperation."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Of a disease; prevalent over a whole country or the world.

    "Health authorities implemented strict quarantine measures to control the pandemic spread of the virus."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek word 'pandēmos', meaning 'belonging to all people', formed by combining 'pan-' (all) and 'dēmos' (people). Entering English via French in the mid-17th century, the term initially described any widespread affliction before specializing in epidemiology to denote a global disease outbreak.

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