flu

• n. インフルエンザ
• n. （インフルエンザ）人の名前；（フランス語で）インフルエンザ。

influenza, fluから略される。

flu

flu: [19] Flu is short for influenza [18]. The first record of its use is in a letter of 1839 by the poet Robert Southey (who spelled it, as was commonly the practice in the 19th century, flue): ‘I have had a pretty fair share of the Flue’. Influenza means literally ‘influence’ in Italian, and was used metaphorically for the ‘outbreak of a particular disease’ (hence an influenza di febbre scarlattina was an ‘outbreak of scarlet fever’, a ‘scarlet fever epidemic’).

The severe epidemic of the disease we now know as flu, which struck Italy in 1743 and spread from there throughout Europe, was called an influenza di catarro ‘catarrh epidemic’, or simply an influenza – and hence influenza became the English word for the disease.
=> influence, influenza

flu (n.)

1839, flue, shortening of influenza. Spelling flu attested from 1893. The abstraction of the middle syllable is an uncommon method of shortening words in English; Weekley compares tec for detective, scrip for subscription.

1. One of the office girls was down with the flu .

女性従業員がインフルエンザにかかった。

2.Withdrawal from heroin is actually like a severe attack of gastric flu .

ヘロインをやめる過程は、実際には深刻な胃腸型インフルエンザにかかっているようなものだ。

3.Three members of the band went down with flu .

このバンドのメンバー3人がインフルエンザにかかった。

4.One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide.

スペインインフルエンザの大爆発は世界中の2200万人近くの命を奪った。

5.She thought she just had a touch of flu .

彼女は自分が風邪気味だと思っている。