The story
- Latin · derived frominfluentia
- Italian · borrowed frominfluenza“influence”
- English todayinfluenza
Borrowed from Italian influenza (“influence”), from Latin influentia. Doublet of influence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
influenza
Today it means: An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. Full definition →
Italian influenza ← Latin influentia