pellagra – English noun declension

English noun forms of pellagra

Noun: pellagra
Singularpellagra
Pluralpellagras

Sample Sentences

  • In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain. [1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 531:]
  • Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread. [2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:]

Etymology

From Italian pellagra, from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “seizure, attack, catching”). See: Italian Nouns 'pellagra', Latin Nouns 'pellis', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἄγρα'.

Verbs referencing "pellagra"

Irish Nouns peallagra.