smallpox

See also: small-pox and small pox

English

Severe form of Smallpox.

Etymology

From small +‎ pox.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔːlpɒks/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔːlpɑːks/

Noun

smallpox (usually uncountable, plural smallpoxes)

(medicine) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.

Synonyms

variola

Derived terms

antismallpox
smallpox blanket

Translations

disease

Arikara: nasačiraánuʾ, sawárus, sačiraánuʾ
Armenian: ծաղիկ (hy) (całik)
Assamese: বৰ আই (bor ai)
Assiniboine: wįcáȟniȟni
Asturian: belleya f
Bashkir: сәсәк (säsäk)
Belarusian: во́спа f (vóspa)
Catalan: verola (ca) f, pigota (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天花 (zh) (tiānhuā)
Classical Nahuatl: ^{(please verify)} huēi zahuatl , huēyi zahuatl
Cree: ᒥᓯ ᐅᒥᑮᐃᐧᐣ (misi omikiiwin)
Czech: neštovice (cs) f pl
Danish: kopper (da) pl
Dutch: pokken (nl) c
Esperanto: variolo
Finnish: isorokko (fi)
French: variole (fr) f, petite vérole (fr) f
Galician: varíola f, boas f pl, vexigas f pl
German: Pocken (de) f pl, Blattern f pl
Greek: ευλογιά (el) f (evlogiá)
Hiligaynon: hangga
Icelandic: bólusótt (is) f
Italian: vaiolo (it) m
Japanese: 天然痘 (てんねんとう, tennentō), 疱瘡 (ja) (ほうそう, hōsō), 痘瘡 (とうそう, tōsō)
Kalmyk: цецг (tsetsg)
Korean: 천연두 (ko) (cheonyeondu)
Lakota: wičháȟaŋȟaŋ
Latgalian: pokys
Latvian: bakas

Malecite-Passamaquoddy: lahpihkut
Manx: spohttyn breckey m
Maori: mate koroputaputa, mate pokapoka
Mi'kmaq: lapigot anim
Navajo: łóódtsoh
Norman: vétheule f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kopper (no) m pl

Nynorsk: koppar m pl
Pawnee: racákiraaruʾ
Polish: ospa (pl) f
Portuguese: varíola (pt) f
Romanian: variolă (ro) f, vărsat (ro) n
Russian: о́спа (ru) f (óspa)
Scottish Gaelic: a' bhreac f, a' bhanachrach f
Sindhi: ماتا‎ (maataa)
Sinhalese: මසූරි (masūri), මසූරිකා (masūrikā), මහලෙඩ (mahaleḍa)
Slovak: kiahne (sk) f pl, variola (sk) f
Spanish: viruela (es) f
Swahili: ndui
Swedish: smittkoppor pl
Tagalog: bulutong (tl)
Telugu: మశూచి (te) (maśūci)
Thai: ฝีดาษ (th) (fǐi-dàat)
Tlingit: kwaan
Turkish: çiçek hastalığı (tr)
Unami: tëspehëleokàn
Vietnamese: đậu mùa (vi)
Volapük: pogip
Welsh: y frech wen f, y frech folog f
Yiddish: פּאָקן‎ pl (pokn)

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