Black Death

English Etymology en da den sorte død the black death, da sortedød black death, since 1755, from en gmq-oda -. The collocation as such is attested early on, but the specific use is believed to have originated in Scandinavia and is first attested in en sv swarta dödhen 1 (1540), sv svarthe döden (1555); Modern sv svarta döden; compare no svartedauden, no svartedauen. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Black Death.wav Southern England Proper noun Black Death 1 en disease historical A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia. en 2013 w:Al Gore Earth Inc. The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/ New York w:Random House 978-0-8129-9294-6 2012039890 827202765 18 https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/page/18/ Following the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century, and the weakening of Mongol rule, the closing of overland routes between Europe and Asia once again created a bottleneck that flowed through the Middle East, trade flows that were largely controlled by Venice and Egypt. Synonyms the en plague the en bubonic plague the en Black Plague Translations 14th century pandemic outbreak Arabic: ar الطّاعُونُ m, ar مَوْت أَسْوَد m Breton: br bosenn zu f Bulgarian: bg черна смърт f Catalan: ca pesta negra f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 黑死病 hēisǐbìng Danish: da den sorte død, da sortedød, da den dyre død Dutch: nl zwarte dood m Esperanto: eo nigra morto Estonian: et must surm Faroese: fo svartideyði m Finnish: fi musta surma French: fr peste noire f German: de Beulenpest f, de schwarzer Tod m Greek: el Μαύρη Πανώλη f Hebrew: he המוות השחור Hungarian: hu fekete halál Icelandic: is svarti dauði m Indonesian: id Kematian Hitam Italian: it peste nera f Japanese: ja 黒死病 こくしびょう, kokushibyō Korean: ko 흑사병(黑死病) Latvian: lv melnā nāve Lithuanian: lt juodoji mirtis Low German: nds swart Dood m Macedonian: mk цр́на смрт f Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn хар үхэл Neapolitan: nap pésta f Norwegian: Bokmål: definite form nb svartedauden m Nynorsk: definite form nn svartedauden m, nb svartedauen m Persian: fa طاعون سیاه Polish: pl czarna śmierć f Portuguese: pt peste negra f Romanian: ro moartea neagră f, ro ciumă f, ro pestă f Russian: ru чёрная смерть f, ru чёрный мор m Scottish Gaelic: gd Bàs Dubh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh доба куге, sh црна смрт f Latin: sh doba kuge, sh crna smrt f Slovak: sk mor m Slovene: sl črna smrt f Spanish: es peste negra f Swedish: definite form sv digerdöden, sv digredöden, sv stora döden, sv stordöden, sv svarta döden, sv svartedöden, sv pesten; sv böldpest Late Old Swedish: definite form gmq-osw store dødhin, gmq-osw *dighre dødhin, gmq-osw *svarthi dødhin; 1540 sv stoore dödhen, sv digre dödhen, sv swarta dödhen; 1555 sv svarthe döden, sv dijgredöden, sv store döden Old Gutnish: definite form gmq-ogt ᛐᛁᚼᚱᛆ ᛬ ᛑᛆᚢᚦᛁᚿ, gmq-ogt tighra dauþin Thai: th กาฬมรณะ gaa-lá-mɔɔ-rá-ná Turkish: tr kara ölüm Vietnamese: vi Cái Chết Đen Welsh: cy pla du m, cy haint y nodau f en Bacterial diseases Insect-borne diseases