pandemic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). πάνδημος is derived from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”)) + δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people; free citizens, sovereign people”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- (“to divide, share”)). Compare Late Latin pandēmus (“affecting all the people, general, public”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pandemic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pandemic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pandemics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.
pos: adj
examples: The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918.
Among diſeaſes, ſome do more generally haunt a Country, by reaſon of a certain property in the air, produced through a particular influence of the climat; and the fuming of malign ſtreams out of the earth; whence ſuch diſeaſes are termed Endemick or Pandemick: Others, though they are general, do only rage at a certain ſeaſon of the year, and are therefore called Epidemick; [...]
Diſeaſes are likewise endemic and pandemic. [...] The pandemic affect the People in general at one and the ſame Time, without Regard to Sex, Age, Condition, or Temperament; ſuch as peſtilential Diſeaſes.
Avian–human influenza A reassortant viruses with the phenotype of restricted replication in primates would not be able to spread efficiently from human to human, and therefore viruses with these gene constellations would not be expected to give rise to pandemic human influenza viruses. This represents one possible obstacle to the emergence of new pandemic influenza A viruses in humans, namely, the presence of avian–human influenza gene constellations that restrict viral replication in primates.
gloss: General, widespread.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: A former age insisted upon the efficacy of scarlet curtains and red broad-cloth in small-pox—a succeeding age thinks it has proved the practice superstitious,—or they refer to it fancy. Now that said fancy is an element in the constitution of man, possibly more powerful in its effects upon the cure or aggravation of disease, than all the drugs in all the chemists' laboratories in all the towns of the world. For it is universal and not partial, pandemic and not solitary.
Allow Class[ical] Ō and Ǔ to merge into a single phoneme, namely /o/, [...] and the specimens under investigation will emerge as /nodo/, /nokʼe/, and /noro/, the last-mentioned driven by an early pandemic tendency to change into /nora/ as, inherently, the designation of a female.
gloss: A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
pos: noun
examples: Those diseases which have some strong resemblance in their general characters, and attack many individuals in a large extent of country at about the same time, are commonly called epidemics. If all, or about all the inhabitants of a country be similarly attacked, at or near the same time, with a particular complaint, it is more properly called a pandemic.
The full and correct theory of influenza will not be reached by the great pandemics only. On the other hand some very localized epidemics may prove to be signal instances for the pathology, although they do not bear upon the source of the great historic waves of influenza.
The outbreak [of potato blight] in Ireland was part of a pandemic—that is, the disease suddenly became widespread and destructive almost simultaneously in several European countries and in the United States as well. [...] [T]he pathogen increased and became widely distributed, so that when the weather became generally and extremely favorable, as happened during the years of the pandemic, it could attack rapidly and in force over a wide area at once.
The American pandemic of men's violence against women is one of the greatest tragedies of our time.
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call "the next big one."
What I spend a lot of time worrying about are things like pandemics. You can’t build walls in order to prevent the next airborne lethal flu from landing on our shores.
WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. [...] We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. This is the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus. And we have never before seen a pandemic that can be controlled, at the same time.
When the pandemic broke out, transport as a site of transmission was therefore at the forefront of medical experts' minds. And it was something they were not afraid to address publicly.
We are certainly right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase- namely, we don't have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. So if you're saying, 'are we out of the pandemic phase in this country?', we are.
gloss: A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
Synonyms: pandemic
Related words: endemic
epidemic
hyperepidemic
nonendemic
nonepidemic
pandemia
pandemial
pandemian
Pandemic
pingdemic
infodemic
interepidemic
intraepidemic
panepidemic
postepidemic
preepidemic
Black Death
bubonic plague
COVID-19
plague
Spanish flu
Derived words: antipandemic
nonpandemic
pancession
pandemical
pandemically
pandemic baby
pandemicity
pandemicky
quademic
scamdemic
shamdemic
tridemic
tripledemic
twindemic
interpandemic
intrapandemic
plandemic
postpandemic
post-pandemic
prepandemic
pre-pandemic
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: pandemie
lang: Albanian
word: pandemi
lang: Arabic
word: جَائِحَة
roman: jāʔiḥa
lang: Armenian
word: պանդեմիա
roman: pandemia
lang: Armenian
word: համավարակ
roman: hamavarak
lang: Azerbaijani
word: pandemiya
lang: Basque
word: pandemia
lang: Belarusian
word: пандэмі́я
roman: pandemíja
lang: Bengali
word: অতিমারী
roman: otimari
lang: Bulgarian
word: панде́мия
roman: pandémija
lang: Catalan
word: pandèmia
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 瘟疫
roman: wan¹ jik⁶
lang: Chinese
word: 瘟疫
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 大流行病
roman: dà liúxíngbìng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瘟疫
roman: wēnyì
lang: Czech
word: pandemie
lang: Danish
word: pandemi
lang: Dutch
word: pandemie
lang: Esperanto
word: pandemio
lang: Estonian
word: pandeemia
lang: Faroese
word: heimsfarsótt
lang: Finnish
word: pandemia
lang: French
word: pandémie
lang: Galician
word: pandemia
lang: Georgian
word: პანდემია
roman: ṗandemia
lang: German
word: Pandemie
lang: Greek
word: πανδημία
roman: pandimía
lang: Hebrew
word: פַּנְדֶּמְיָה
lang: Hindi
word: महामारी
roman: mahāmārī
lang: Hungarian
word: pandémia
lang: Hungarian
word: világjárvány
lang: Icelandic
word: heimsfaraldur
lang: Indonesian
word: pandemi
lang: Irish
word: paindéim
lang: Italian
word: pandemia
lang: Japanese
word: パンデミック
roman: pandemikku
lang: Kazakh
word: індет
roman: ındet
lang: Kazakh
word: пандемия
roman: pandemiä
lang: Khmer
word: ជំងឺរាតត្បាត
roman: cumngɨɨriəttbaat
lang: Korean
word: 범유행
roman: beomyuhaeng
lang: Korean
word: 팬데믹
roman: paendemik
lang: Kyrgyz
word: пандемия
roman: pandemiya
lang: Ladino
word: pandemia
lang: Latvian
word: pandēmija
lang: Lithuanian
word: pandemija
lang: Macedonian
word: панде́мија
roman: pandémija
lang: Malay
word: pandemik
lang: Maltese
word: pandemija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pandemi
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: pandemi
lang: Occitan
word: pandemia
lang: Persian
word: همهگیری جهانی
roman: hame-gir-e jahâni
lang: Persian
word: همهگیر
roman: hame-gir
lang: Persian
word: دنیاگیری
roman: donyâ-giri
lang: Persian
word: پاندمی
roman: pândemi
lang: Polish
word: pandemia
lang: Portuguese
word: pandemia
lang: Romanian
word: pandemie
lang: Russian
word: пандеми́я
roman: pandɛmíja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пандѐмија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pandèmija
lang: Sicilian
word: pannimìa
lang: Slovak
word: pandémia
lang: Slovene
word: pandemija
lang: Spanish
word: pandemia
lang: Swahili
word: pandemia
lang: Swedish
word: pandemi
lang: Tagalog
word: pandemya
lang: Tajik
word: пандемия
roman: pandemiya
lang: Tamil
word: பெருந்தொற்று
roman: peruntoṟṟu
lang: Tatar
word: пандемия
roman: pandemiyä
lang: Thai
word: โรคระบาดทั่ว
roman: rôok-rá-bàat-tûua
lang: Turkish
word: pandemi
lang: Turkmen
word: pandemiýa
lang: Ukrainian
word: пандемі́я
roman: pandemíja
lang: Ukrainian
word: панде́мія
roman: pandémija
lang: Urdu
word: عالمگیر وبا
lang: Urdu
word: عالمی وبا
roman: 'ālmī obā
lang: Uzbek
word: pandemiya
lang: Vietnamese
word: đại dịch
lang: Yiddish
word: פּאַנדעמיע
roman: pandemye