rinderpest
noun
rinderpest is a noun meaning “An eradicated contagious disease of ruminants and swine caused by Rinderpest virus, an RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-N-D-E-R-P-E-S-T, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rinderpest is rinderpests.
What does rinderpest mean?
noun
- 1
An eradicated contagious disease of ruminants and swine caused by Rinderpest virus, an RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rinderpest
- rinderpests plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rinderpest?
Rinderpest appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Rinderpest in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | peste bovine |
| German | Rinderpest |
| Portuguese | peste bovina |
| Spanish | peste bovina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does rinderpest come from?
Borrowed from German Rinderpest (“cattle plague”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).