variole

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English

Noun

variole (plural varioles)

  1. smallpox; variola
  2. (geology) A spherule of a variolite.

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French

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Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin variola, derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin varius. Cognate to English variola, Italian vaiolo, Spanish viruela, Bulgarian вариола (variola) and Esperanto/Ido variolo.

Noun

variole f (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) smallpox

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