英语词汇pestilential的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pestilential
词源	pestilential adj. late 14c., pestilencial, "producing or tending to produce an infectious disease, characterized by the plague," from Medieval Latin pestilentialis, from Latin pestilentia "plague" (see pestilence). Weakened sense of "mischievous, pernicious" is from 1530s. Related: Pestilentially. Entries linking to pestilential pestilence n. c. 1300, "any infectious or contagious disease, fatal epidemic," from Old French pestilence "plague, epidemic" (12c.) and directly from Latin pestilentia "a plague, an unwholesome atmosphere," noun of condition from pestilentem (nominative pestilens) "infected, unwholesome, noxious," from pestis "deadly disease, plague" (see pest). Also in Middle English "wickedness, evil, sin, a vice, that which is morally pestilential." updated on April 17, 2020
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pestilential adj.