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語源

Borrowed from Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence.

発音

• IPA: /ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə/
• 韻: -ɛnzə

名詞

influenza (countable and uncountable, plural influenzas or influenze)

1. (pathology) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
   • 2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 32:

     In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours.
     This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people".

   • 2022 January 1, Sravasti Dasgupta, “Israel reports first case of ‘flurona’ – rare double infection of Covid and influenza”, in The Independent‎, archived from the original on 12 April 2022:

     Israel has recorded the first case of a rare mixture of two diseases, influenza and coronavirus, dubbed “flurona”.

   • 2025 January 27, Edward Helmore, “First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 25 March 2025:

     Highly pathogenic bird flu (HPAI) is of rising concern to epidemiologists. The US National Library of Medicine lists H5N9 as a subtype avian influenza virus. […] It found cats could “serve as mixing vessels for reassortment of avian and mammalian influenza viruses” as well as act as a “bridge” to infect other species.

同意語

• flu
• grippe, grip

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• → Bengali: ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা (inphluẏenja)
• → Korean: 인플루엔자 (inpeulluenja)
• → Zulu: imfuluwenza