variola

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[vəˈrʌɪələ], (Noun)

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late Middle English (in the plural, denoting pustules): from late Latin, literally ‘pustule, pock’, from Latin varius ‘affected by the pox’, from varus ‘pimple’. The sense ‘smallpox’ dates from the late 16th century




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