legionela

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Legionella. Compare Spanish legionela.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.ʒi.oˈnɛ.lɐ/ [le.ʒɪ.oˈnɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /le.ʒjoˈnɛ.lɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /le.ʒi.oˈnɛ.la/ [le.ʒɪ.oˈnɛ.la], (faster pronunciation) /le.ʒjoˈnɛ.la/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɨ.ʒjuˈnɛ.lɐ/

Hyphenation: le‧gi‧o‧ne‧la

Noun

legionela f (plural legionelas)

Legionnaires' disease

Related terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lexjoˈnela/ [le.xjoˈne.la]

Rhymes: -ela

Syllabification: le‧gio‧ne‧la

Noun

legionela f (uncountable)

Legionnaires' disease
- 2016 December, “Hermana Paciencia: una gran sonrisa contra el Ébola - Diario Rombe”, in Diario Rombe‎, archived from the original on 2 December 2020:
  por qué se le ha dado bombo a esta enfermedad y no otras como a la legionela cuando ésta se ha cobrado 10 muertes (8 más que el ébola)?
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“legionela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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