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roseola infantum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.90 in modern English

Syllables
rose-o-la in-fan-tum
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A childhood disease caused by human herpesvirus, and characterised by a high-grade fever and a rash which appears as the fever is seemingly resolving.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin roseola īnfantum (“a rosy (rash) of the infant”).

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Synonyms

roseola sixth disease three-day fever exanthema subitum roseola infantilis pseudorubella

Questions

What does roseola infantum mean?
A childhood disease caused by human herpesvirus, and characterised by a high-grade fever and a rash which appears as the fever is seemingly resolving.
Where does roseola infantum come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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