Pneumonia is a serious infection that fills the lungs with fluid. Died of pneumonia, treat the pneumonia, a bout of pneumonia.
It was called the old man's friend before antibiotics, because it ended long illnesses quickly. The silent p at the front is Greek, and it is the word most often cited for that spelling.
1nounpneumoniaA serious infection that fills the lungs with fluid.
“Grandpa's cold turned into pneumonia, and he spent a week in hospital.”
pneumonia is an illness.
Greek pneumonia means lung disease, from pneumon, a lung.
Proto-Indo-European
*plew-
Ancient Greek
πνευμονία — lung disease
English, today
pneumonia
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From Ancient Greek πνευμονία (“lung disease”), from πνεύμων (“lung”) + -ία.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA