influenza

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

in·flu·enza [influenza influenzas] BrE [ˌɪnfluˈenzə] NAmE [ˌɪnfluˈenzə] noun uncountable (formal)
= ↑flu

Word Origin:
mid 18th cent.: from Italian, literally influence, from medieval Latin influentia ‘inflow’, from Latin influere, from in- ‘into’ + fluere ‘to flow’. The Italian word also has the sense ‘an outbreak of an epidemic’, hence ‘epidemic’. It was applied specifically to an influenza epidemic which began in Italy in 1743, later adopted in English as the name of the disease.

Example Bank:
•the influenza strain known as H7

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  flu, grippe