Noun: cholera
| Singular | cholera |
| Plural | choleras |
Sample Sentences
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'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.' [1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus:]
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At that time, the city [Christiania, now Oslo] was in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and victims were dying at the rate of 60 a day. Bradshaw contracted the disease, and died on September 6 [1853]. [1950 January, “Notes and News: George Bradshaw's Grave”, in Railway Magazine, pages 61–62:]
Nouns inflected like cholera
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra, “cholera”). Doublet of choler. See: Latin Nouns '
cholera', Ancient Greek Nouns '
χολέρα'.