epidemic

英 [ep?'dem?k] 美[,?p?'d?m?k]

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復數:?epidemics;

epidemic 流行的

epi-, 在上，在中。-demo, 人民，詞源同demotic, democracy.

epidemic: epidemic: [17] An epidemic is literally something that has an effect ‘among the people’. The word comes from French épidémique, a derivative of the noun épidémie, which goes back via late Latin epidēmia to Greek epidēmíā ‘disease prevalent among the people’. This was a noun use of epidémios, a compound adjective formed from the prefix epí- ‘among’ and demos ‘people’ (source of English democracy).
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epidemic (adj.): c. 1600, "common to or affecting a whole people," originally and usually, though not etymologically, in reference to diseases, from French épidémique, from épidemié "an epidemic disease," from Medieval Latin epidemia, from Greek epidemia "a stay in a place; prevalence of an epidemic disease" (especially the plague), from epi "among, upon" (see epi-) + demos "people, district" (see demotic).
epidemic (n.): 1757, "an epidemic disease, a temporary prevalence of a disease throughout a community," from epidemic (adj.); earlier epideme (see epidemy). An Old English noun for this (persisting in Middle English) was man-cwealm.

1. Drug experts say it could spell the end of the crack epidemic.: 禁毒專家說它可能會結束強效可卡因吸食泛濫的局面。

2. Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.: 衛生官員成功地將疫情控制在塔巴廷加地區。

3. The major impact of this epidemic worldwide is yet to come.: 這種傳染病在世界范圍內的重大影響還未完全顯現。