Noun: contagio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: con‧ta‧gio
| Singular m | contagio |
| Plural m | contagios |
Sample Sentences
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El pico más alto de contagios ocurrió en mayo, tan solo tres meses después del primer contagio. (The highest spike in infections occurred in May, just three months after the first infection.) [2026 February 1, Daniela Guazo, “Un contagio por hora: la epidemia de sarampión que México no pudo frenar [One infection per hour: the measles epidemic that Mexico couldn't stop]”, in El Universal (Mexico), archived from the original on 02 Feb 2026:]
Nouns inflected like contagio
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contāgium. First attested in 1490. See: Latin Nouns '
contāgium'.
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