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pox

/pɑks/ やや難 頻度 8592位

意味

  1. 《古》発疹(はっしん)の出る病気(水痘(chicken pox),ほうそう(small pox)など)
  2. 《the ~》《話》梅毒

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語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

From the plural of Middle English pocke. See also pock. The curse sense involves metonymy: wishing a literal pox upon someone is the original form of pox-relevant curse, and the word pox itself also came to mean curse.

出典: Wiktionary「pox」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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