variola

See also: varíola

English

Etymology

From Middle English variolas pl (“pustules, pocks”), from Medieval Latin or Medical Latin variola (“infectious disease causing pustules; pox”), from Latin varius. Doublet of variole.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə

• Audio (US):

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Noun

variola (usually uncountable, plural variolas)

1. (pathology) Smallpox (Orthopoxvirus variola).

Derived terms

• equine variola
• variola ovina
• variolar
• varioline
• variolous

Translations

smallpox

• Esperanto: variolo
• French: variole (fr) f
• Russian: о́спа (ru) f (óspa)
• Spanish: viruela (es) f
• Telugu: మశూచి (te) (maśūci)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: چیچك (çiçek)

• Volapük: pogip

Anagrams

• ovarial

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /variˈola/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: va‧ri‧o‧la

Adjective

variola (accusative singular variolan, plural variolaj, accusative plural variolajn)

1. variolous

Related terms

• variolo (“smallpox”)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin or Medical Latin variola, from Latin varius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [variˈola]
• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧o‧la

Noun

variola (plural variola-variola)

1. (pathology) variola, smallpox: An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks

   Synonyms: cacar, ketumbuhan

Derived terms

• variola vera

Further reading

• “variola”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Found in Medieval Latin, Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, and also New Latin and Medical Latin later. From varius (“various, variegated, also coming to mean "spotted, speckled"”).

Noun

variola f (genitive variolae); first declension

1. an infectious disease causing pustules; pox

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	variola	variolae
genitive	variolae	variolārum
dative	variolae	variolīs
accusative	variolam	variolās
ablative	variolā	variolīs
vocative	variola	variolae

Descendants

• → English: variola
• Catalan: verola
• French: variole
• Gallurese: vagliolu
• Italian: vaiolo
• Norman: vétheule
• Piedmontese: vairòle
• Portuguese: varíola
• Romanian: variolă
• Sardinian: oriolu (Logudorese)
• Sassarese: baglioru
• Spanish: viruela

References

• "variola", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin variola, from varius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋarǐoːla/, /ʋariôːla/
• Hyphenation: va‧ri‧o‧la

Noun

varìōla or variȏla f (Cyrillic spelling варѝо̄ла or варио̑ла)

1. (pathology, uncountable) smallpox

   Synonym: bòginje

Declension

Declension of variola

	singular
nominative	variola
genitive	variole
dative	varioli
accusative	variolu
vocative	variolo
locative	varioli
instrumental	variolom

References

• “variola”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026