nosema

See also: Nosema

English

Etymology

From nosema disease or directly from translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”), from Latin nosema, from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēma, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: no‧se‧ma

Noun

nosema (uncountable) (insect pathology, informal)

1. Nosema disease:
   1. An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
      • 2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

        There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.

      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nosema.
   2. (possibly dated) Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.

Anagrams

• Masone, Seamon

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēma, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noˈseː.ma/, [nɔˈs̠eːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈse.ma/, [noˈs̬ɛːmä]
• Hyphenation: no‧se‧ma

Noun

nosēma n (genitive nosēmatis); third declension

1. disease
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Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	nosēma	nosēmata
genitive	nosēmatis	nosēmatum
dative	nosēmatī	nosēmatibus
accusative	nosēma	nosēmata
ablative	nosēmate	nosēmatibus
vocative	nosēma	nosēmata