epidemic

• adj.流行; 伝染性
• n. 伝染病; 流行; 流行の流行など。

epi-, on, in.-demo「人」、語源的にはdemotic「民主主義」と同じ。

epidemic

epidemic: [17] An epidemic is literally something that has an effect ‘among the people’. The word comes from French épidémique, a derivative of the noun épidémie, which goes back via late Latin epidēmia to Greek epidēmíā ‘disease prevalent among the people’. This was a noun use of epidémios, a compound adjective formed from the prefix epí- ‘among’ and demos ‘people’ (source of English democracy).
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epidemic (adj.)

c. 1600, "common to or affecting a whole people," originally and usually, though not etymologically, in reference to diseases, from French épidémique, from épidemié "an epidemic disease," from Medieval Latin epidemia, from Greek epidemia "a stay in a place; prevalence of an epidemic disease" (especially the plague), from epi "among, upon" (see epi-) + demos "people, district" (see demotic).

epidemic (n.)

1757, "an epidemic disease, a temporary prevalence of a disease throughout a community," from epidemic (adj.); earlier epideme (see epidemy). An Old English noun for this (persisting in Middle English) was man-cwealm.

1. Drug experts say it could spell the end of the crack epidemic .

麻薬取締専門家は、強力なコカイン吸引氾濫の局面を終わらせる可能性があると述べている。

2.Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.

衛生当局者は感染をタバティンガ地域に抑えることに成功した。

3.The major impact of this epidemic worldwide is yet to come.

という感染症の世界的な重大な影響はまだ完全には現れていない。

4.The AIDS epidemic further stigmatised gays.

エイズの流行は、同性愛者をさらに見ることができない。

5.Today,doctors are fearing a worldwide epidemic .

今、医師たちは世界的な流行病が爆発することを心配している。