anthrax

From Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “abscess, boil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.θɹæks/

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anthrax (usually uncountable, plural anthraxes)

1. (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
   • 2017 June 14, Julian Zelizer, “The challenge of protecting members of Congress”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 June 2017:

     After anthrax spores were found in letters sent to Sens. Patrick Leahy and Thomas Daschle in 2001, Congress began screening all the mail that came into the building.

2. 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.

• charbon
• Cumberland disease
• malignant edema
• Siberian plague
• splenic fever
• ragsorter's disease
• woolsorter's disease

• anthracite
• anthracene

• antrax

• IPA^(key): [ˈantraks]

anthrax m inan

1. anthrax (an acute infectious bacterial disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, which can occur in humans)

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaks/

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anthrax m (uncountable)

1. anthrax

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́νθρᾰξ (ắnthrăx).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈan.tʰraks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan.traks]

anthrax m (genitive anthracis); third declension

1. cinnabar
2. a virulent ulcer

Third-declension noun.

• “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