anthrax

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “abscess, boil”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæn.θɹæks/ === Noun === anthrax (usually uncountable, plural anthraxes) (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis. 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. ==== Synonyms ==== charbon Cumberland disease malignant edema Siberian plague splenic fever ragsorter's disease woolsorter's disease ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== anthracite anthracene ==== Translations ==== == Czech == === Alternative forms === antrax === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈantraks] === Noun === anthrax m inan anthrax (an acute infectious bacterial disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, which can occur in humans) ==== Declension ==== == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaks/ === Noun === anthrax m (uncountable) anthrax === Further reading === “anthrax”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́νθρᾰξ (ắnthrăx). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈan.tʰraks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈan.traks] === Noun === anthrax m (genitive anthracis); third declension cinnabar a virulent ulcer ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “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