Pestis
Full definition of pestis
Noun
pestis
(uncountable)- (uncommon) Plague.
- 2014, John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner M.D., Cambridge University Press ():page 198: ... a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis.page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that distemper.