Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - measles
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Measles is an infectious illness that gives you a high temperature and red spots on your skin. N-UNCOUNT: also the N ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun plural but singular or plural in construction Etymology: Middle English meseles, plural of mesel ~, spot characteristic of ~; akin to Middle Dutch masel spot characteristic of ~ Date: 14th century 1. a. an acute contagious disease that is caused by a morbillivirus (species Measles virus) and is marked especially by an eruption of distinct red circular spots b. any of various eruptive diseases (as German ~) 2. Middle English mesel infested with tapeworms, literally, leprous, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin misellus leper, from Latin, wretch, from misellus, diminutive of miser miserable infestation with or disease caused by larval tapeworms in the muscles and tissues ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n.pl. (also treated as sing.) 1 a an acute infectious viral disease marked by red spots on the skin. b the spots of measles. 2 a tapeworm disease of pigs. Etymology: ME masele(s) prob. f. MLG masele, MDu. masel pustule (cf. Du. mazelen measles), OHG masala: change of form prob. due to assim. to ME meser leper ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- early 14c., pl. of M.E. masel, probably from M.Du. masel "blemish," from P.Gmc. *mas- "spot, blemish." Probably influenced by O.Fr. mesel "leprous," from L. misellus "wretched, unfortunate," dim. of miser "wretched." Measly "affected with measles" is 1687, sense of "meager and contemptible" first recorded 1864 in British slang. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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