anthrax

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.θɹæks/

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anthrax (usually uncountable, plural anthraxes)

1. (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
2. The human disease that can occur in humans through contact with infected herbivores, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans, with symptoms including lesions on the skin or in the lungs, often fatal.

• charbon
• Cumberland disease
• malignant edema
• Siberian plague
• splenic fever
• woolsorter's disease

• anthraxlike
• glossanthrax
• nonanthrax

• antrax

anthrax m

1. anthrax (an acute infectious bacterial disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, which can occur in humans)

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tʰraks/

anthrax m (genitive anthracis); third declension

1. cinnabar
2. a virulent ulcer

Third declension.

• anthrax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anthrax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• anthrax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers