sodoku

English

Etymology

From Japanese 鼠毒.

Noun

sodoku (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, pathology) A bacterial zoonotic disease, a form of rat-bite fever caused by the bacterium Spirillum minus.

French

Noun

sodoku m (plural sodokus)

  1. sodoku

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 鼠毒 (sodoku, literally “rat poison”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /soˈdo.ku/, /soˈdɔ.ku/
  • Rhymes: -oku, -ɔku
  • Hyphenation: so‧dó‧ku, so‧dò‧ku

Noun

sodoku m (invariable)

  1. (pathology) rat-bite fever

Further reading
  • sodoku in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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