Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ochlesis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ochle-sis
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Crowd-poisoning; a disease occasioned or aggravated by overcrowding, especially due to lack of ventilation.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄχλος (ókhlos, “multitude, crowd”) + -esis.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ὄχλος

Usage

Inflected Forms

ochleses (plural)

Questions

What does ochlesis mean?: Crowd-poisoning; a disease occasioned or aggravated by overcrowding, especially due to lack of ventilation.
Where does ochlesis come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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