contagion

Italian translation: Contagio

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English term or phrase:contagion
Italian translation:Contagio
Entered by: Irene Di Rosa

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07:55 Feb 14, 2021
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Additional field(s): Medical (general), Journalism
English term or phrase: contagion
Definition from Lexico:
(n.) The communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact.

Example sentence(s):
  • Coronavirus in Spain: From tourism hotspot to contagion hotbed DW
  • The literature of contagion is vile. A plague is like a lobotomy. It cuts away the higher realms, the loftiest capacities of humanity, and leaves only the animal. “Farewell to the giant powers of man,” Mary Shelley wrote in “The Last Man,” in 1826, after a disease has ravaged the world. The New Yorker
  • We’ve long known that panic spreads, but experts more recently have come to understand emotional contagion, the mechanism by which people’s emotions (positive or negative) “go viral” within groups, influencing our thoughts and actions. Learning about that mechanism is key to dampening negative emotional contagion and making us feel a bit less frantic. Harvard Business Review
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Contagio
Definition:
Trasmissione di una malattia infettiva; la malattia stessa: contagio diretto, indiretto;diffusione, influenza

Etimologia: ← dal lat. contagĭu(m), deriv. di contingĕre ‘toccare, contaminare’.
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Definition from Treccani:
La trasmissione di una malattia infettiva dalla persona malata ad una sana sia direttamente sia mediante materiali o mezzi inquinati (aria, acqua, alimenti, escrezioni, ecc.), ovvero attraverso insetti o animali trasmettitori dei microrganismi infettivi.

Example sentence(s):
  • Coronavirus nel mondo: accelera il <b>contagio</b> in Svezia. - La Repubblica  
Claudia Sartori
Italy
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Contagio


Definition from Garzanti Linguistica:
Trasmissione di una malattia infettiva; la malattia stessa: contagio diretto, indiretto;diffusione, influenza

Etimologia: ← dal lat. contagĭu(m), deriv. di contingĕre ‘toccare, contaminare’.

Example sentence(s):
  • In sintesi, le analisi indipendenti della Fondazione GIMBE suggeriscono che: la curva del <b>contagio</b> è rallentata... - Corriere della Sera  
  • A Bergamo nel focolaio di massimo <b>contagio</b> sorge il nuovo ospedale in Fiera - La Repubblica  
Irene Di Rosa
Italy
Local time: 12:43
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 4

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