contagium

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contagium

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From Latin contagium (“contagion”).

noun contagia

archaic contagion; contagious matter And its escape [from certain diseases] is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, “nor any contagium of scarlet fever, nor any contagium of small-pox, had arisen spontaneously" within its limits.

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@misc{contagium_2026,
  title = {contagium},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/contagium},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}