πανούκλα

Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin panicula (“swelling, tumour”).

The figurative sense "troublesome woman" has been extracted from the phrase έξω κούκλα, μέσα πανούκλα (éxo koúkla, mésa panoúkla).

Noun

πανούκλα • (panoúkla) f (plural πανούκλες)

(medicine) plague
(veterinary, specifically) disease of pigs
(figuratively) plague (of locusts; of Nazis)
(figuratively) troublesome woman

Declension

declension of πανούκλα

	singular	plural
nominative	πανούκλα •	πανούκλες •
genitive	πανούκλας •	πανουκλών •
accusative	πανούκλα •	πανούκλες •
vocative	πανούκλα •	πανούκλες •

Derived terms

έξω κούκλα, μέσα πανούκλα (éxo koúkla, mésa panoúkla, “outside: a doll; inside: a plague”)

See also

πανδημία f (pandimía, “pandemic”)

Further reading

πανούκλα in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.

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