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> a disease that had been coined Botulism, after bolutus, the Latin for sausage [typo] If the author is reading, sausage in Latin is botellus, or sometimes bot
by bambax 5y ago
> a disease that had been coined Botulism, after bolutus, the Latin for sausage
[typo] If the author is reading, sausage in Latin is botellus, or sometimes botulus, but not bolutus.
- dredmorbius 5y agoFrom the Online Etymological Dictionary: "poisoning caused by eating imperfectly preserved food," 1878, from German Botulismus (1878), coined in German from Medieval Latin botulus "sausage" (see bowel) + -ismus suffix of action or state (see -ism). The sickness first was traced to eating tainted sausage (sausage poisoning was an old name for it). https://www.etymonline.com/word/botulism https://www.etymonline.com/word/botulism