Noun: rubella
Sample Sentences
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At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out. [2002 February 10, Sarah Lyall, “Britain Tries to Quell Fear Over Vaccine for Children”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2021:]
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They have congenital rubella syndrome, which they acquired during an outbreak of the rubella virus, or German measles. [2016 September 8, Jessica Ravitz, “Can forgotten rubella children of the ’60s hold clue for Zika babies?”, in CNN:]
Nouns inflected like rubella
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin rubellus (“reddish”), diminutive of ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-. See: Latin Nouns '
rubellus'.