pandemic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pænˈdɛmɪk/    美 /pænˈdɛmɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
    — Those diseases which have some strong resemblance in their general characters, and attack many individuals in a large extent of country at about the same time, are commonly called epidemics. If all, or about all the inhabitants of a country be similarly attacked, at or near the same time, with a particular complaint, it is more properly called a pandemic.
  2. A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.; The COVID-19 pandemic. specifically
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.”). Greek,Roman,alt-of,not-comparable,rare
    — The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds. Her Garden has the voluptuousness necessary to ensure this, and this is 'the first seminarie / Of all things that are borne to live and die / According to their kindes.' [Quoting from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.]
  3. General, widespread. derogatory,usually
    — A former age insisted upon the efficacy of scarlet curtains and red broad-cloth in small-pox—a succeeding age thinks it has proved the practice superstitious,—or they refer to it fancy. Now that said fancy is an element in the constitution of man, possibly more powerful in its effects upon the cure or aggravation of disease, than all the drugs in all the chemists' laboratories in all the towns of the world. For it is universal and not partial, pandemic and not solitary.

词形变化

more pandemic comparative most pandemic superlative pandemics plural

词汇关系

近义词
pandemic
衍生词
antipandemic nonpandemic pancession pandemical pandemically pandemic baby pandemicity pandemicky quademic scamdemic shamdemic tridemic tripledemic twindemic interpandemic intrapandemic plandemic postpandemic post-pandemic prepandemic pre-pandemic
相关词
endemic epidemic hyperepidemic nonendemic nonepidemic pandemia pandemial pandemian Pandemic pingdemic infodemic interepidemic intraepidemic panepidemic postepidemic preepidemic Black Death bubonic plague COVID-19 plague Spanish flu

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
See Pandemic.
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