zwarte dood

Dutch

Alternative forms
  • Zwarte Dood

Etymology

Calque of German schwarzer Tod or Danish den sorte død as a term for the plague epidemic, ultimately from a North Germanic language.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌzʋɑr.tə ˈdoːt/

Proper noun

zwarte dood m

  1. (historical) Black Death (plague epidemic of the mid-fourteenth century) [from ca. 1700]
  2. (obsolete) Metaphor for death, in particularly an unusually bitter death.
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