Where does “aspergillosis” come from?

Aspergillosis comes from English -osis, derived from Ancient Greek -ωσις, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós, a suffix forming abstract nouns of action or state.

aspergillosis (English): Any of various infections by fungi of the genus...

Definitions

  1. Any of various infections by fungi of the genus...

Ancestry of “aspergillosis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-osisfunctional disease or condition such as...
2New Latin-osisdative masculine plural of -ōsus; dative feminine...

Words derived from “aspergillosis

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