zwarte dood
Dutch
Alternative forms
- Zwarte Dood
Etymology
Calque of German schwarzer Tod or Danish den sorte død as a term for the plague epidemic, ultimately from a North Germanic language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌzʋɑr.tə ˈdoːt/
Proper noun
zwarte dood m
- (historical) Black Death (plague epidemic of the mid-fourteenth century) [from ca. 1700]
- (obsolete) Metaphor for death, in particularly an unusually bitter death.