Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryMorbid matter created by a disease. · Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people. · Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
From medical Latin fōmes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, etc. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin fōmitēs.
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- Borrowed-form mentionfōmesla · fomite
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