typhus

From New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-, extended form of *dʰew- (“scatter like dust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪfəs/
• Rhymes: -aɪfəs

typhus (usually uncountable, plural typhuses)

1. (pathology) Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 377:

     Typhoid and typhus have similar names and symptoms, but are different diseases.

• camp fever, gaol fever, hospital fever, jail fever, prison fever, putrid fever, ship fever

• Typhus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Typhoid fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek; see above.

• IPA^(key): /ti.fys/

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typhus m (plural typhus)

1. typhus

• “typhus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Early modern coinage from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”).

typhus m (genitive typhī); second declension

1. (medicine) a form, type, or character of a fever.
   1. (Medieval Latin) A periodic fever.

Second-declension noun.

• → Catalan: tifus
• → Danish: tyfus
• → English: typhus
• → French: typhus
• → German: Typhus
• → Italian: tifo
• → Korean: 티푸스 (tipuseu)
• → Russian: тиф (tif)
• → Sicilian: tifu
• → Spanish: tifus