cholera
noun /ˈkɒlərə/
/ˈkɑːlərə/
[uncountable]- a serious disease caught from bacteria in water that causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting and often causes death
- A cholera epidemic swept the country.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + cholera- have
- suffer from
- catch
- …
- outbreak
- epidemic
- outbreak
- case
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting bile and later applied to various ailments involving vomiting and diarrhoea): from Latin cholera ‘diarrhoea’ (from Greek kholera), which in late Latin acquired the senses ‘bile’ or ‘anger’, from Greek kholē ‘bile’. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.