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Meaning of pestis | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Plague.
    uncommon, uncountable
  2. A two rivers in Romania.

Examples

“page 198: [...] a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis. page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that [of distemper].”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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