Etymology

pestilent

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Today it means: Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly. Full definition →

Latin pestilens
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompestis
  2. Latin · borrowed frompestilens
  3. English todaypestilent

Middle English, from Latin pestilens, from Latin pestis.

Words from the same roots

Latinpestis all →

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