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pandemic

adj
/pænˈdɛmɪk/US/ˈpaɳɖəmɪk/

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”).

  1. derived from *deh₂-✻ — “to divide, share”
  2. derived from *peh₂-✻ — “to protect, shepherd”
  3. derived from πάνδημος — “of or belonging to all the people, public”

Definitions

  1. Of a disease

    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.

    • 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.
    • 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.

  2. General, widespread.

  3. A pandemic disease

    A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic (“of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of…

      Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic (“of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.”).

    2. Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love…

      Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.

      • That was spoken of the celestial Aphrodite, whose symbol is the tortoise, the emblem of domestic modesty and chastity: not of that baser Pandemic one.

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Derived

antipandemic, nonpandemic, pancession, pandemical, pandemically, pandemic baby, pandemicity, pandemicky, quademic, scamdemic, shamdemic, tridemic, tripledemic, twindemic, interpandemic, intrapandemic, plandemic, postpandemic, post-pandemic, prepandemic, pre-pandemic

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pandemic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA