typhus

typhus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

typhus (usually uncountable, plural typhuses)

1. (pathology) One 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• abdominal typhus
• chigger-borne typhus
• endemic typhus
• epidemic typhus
• flea-borne typhus
• murine typhus
• rat typhus
• scrub typhus
• tick typhus
• tsutsugamushi
• typhous
• typhus fever
• urban typhus

 

Translations

disease

Arabic: تِيفُوس‎ m (tīfūs), تِيفُوس‎ m (tifus) Asturian: tifus m Catalan: tifus (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 斑疹傷寒／斑疹伤寒 (zh) (bānzhěn shānghán) Czech: tyfus (cs) m Danish: tyfus c Dutch: tyfus (nl) Esperanto: tifo (eo) Faroese: týfus n Finnish: pilkkukuume (fi) French: typhus (fr) m Galician: tifo (gl) m German: Fleckfieber (de) n, Flecktyphus m Greek: τύφος (el) (týfos) Hungarian: tífusz (hu), kiütéses tífusz, flekktífusz (hu) Indonesian: tifus (id) Italian: tifo (it) m Japanese: チフス (ja) (chifusu) Kazakh: сүзек (süzek) Korean: 티푸스 (ko) (tipuseu) Malay: tifus Maori: karawaka Norwegian: Bokmål: tyfus m Nynorsk: tyfus m Plautdietsch: Tiefuss n Polish: tyfus (pl) m Portuguese: tifo (pt) m Romanian: tifos (ro) n Russian: тиф (ru) m (tif), сыпно́й тиф m (sypnój tif) Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-ballach m Spanish: tifus (es) m Swedish: tyfus (sv) c Turkish: tifüs (tr)

Further reading

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

---

French

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek; see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.fys/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

typhus m (plural typhus)

1. typhus

Further reading

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

---

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

typhus m (genitive typhī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	typhus	typhī
Genitive	typhī	typhōrum
Dative	typhō	typhīs
Accusative	typhum	typhōs
Ablative	typhō	typhīs
Vocative	typhe	typhī

Descendants

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