The story
- Latin · derived frombotulus“sausage”
- German · borrowed fromBotulismus
- English todaybotulism
From German Botulismus, from Latin botulus (“sausage”), the first identified source of the disease, + -ism.
Words from the same roots
Latinbotulus all →
botulinumbotuliformbotulinbotulotoxin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.