rutto — meaning in English
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English meaning
- murrain noun Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.
- pestilence noun A deadly, widespread disease; a plague.
- plague noun A deadly, fast-spreading disease, especially historically the bubonic plague.
Senses
rutto is used for these senses in English:
- murrain (countable, by extension, plant disease) An infectious disease affecting plants.
- pestilence Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
- plague (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- plague (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
murrain — full definition
- noun Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.
- noun A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution; a plague.
- noun Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular epizootic thereof; also, an infectious disease affecting other animals, such as poultry.
- noun An infectious disease affecting plants.