Noun: dysentery
| Singular | dysentery |
| Plural | dysenteries |
Sample Sentences
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We ate, we drank, and we were merry / and we got typhoid and dysentery. [1959, “In Old Mexico”, Tom Lehrer (music):]
Nouns inflected like dysentery
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English dissenterie, from Old French dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + ἔντερα (éntera, “bowels”). See: Middle English Nouns '
dissenterie', Latin Nouns '
dysenteria', Ancient Greek Nouns '
δυσεντερία'.
Verbs referencing "dysentery"
Finnish Nouns
dysenteria.