malaria

malaria
[18] The original English term for an ‘attack of malarial fever’ was ague. The word malaria did not come on the scene until the mid- 18th century. It was borrowed from Italian mal’aria, a conflation of mala aria, literally ‘bad air’. This was an allusion to the former belief that malaria was caused by foul air, and particularly by vapours given off by swamps. => AIR, MALIGN
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   The disease is caused by the bite of an infected mosquito. It was previously thought, however, that it was caused by the gases given off from marshes. Hence the origin of the word in Italian mal'aria, a shortened form of mala aria, 'bad air.'

The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins. 2013.

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