infection B1 Topic:Health & Medicine US /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/ See IPA manual Freq #4881 Meanings 1 noun An illness caused by harmful germs entering the body. She took antibiotics to fight a chest infection. 2 noun The process of a disease being passed to or spreading inside the body. Washing your hands helps prevent the infection of others. Thesaurus Synonyms 2 noun · the process of a disease... transmission Word family Forms infections Derived forms agroinfectionanti-infectionantiinfectionautoinfectioncoinfectioncross-infectiondisinfectionhydrofectionhyperinfectioninfectiologyinfectionalinfectionism Related forms exfectioninfectinfectableinfectedinfective Common collocations tapeworm infection Noun + noun Etymology AI details From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō. Equivalent to infect + -ion. *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European infection Old French īnfectiō la-lat View etymology graph -> Topics Health & Medicine External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # infection **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/ **Frequency rank:** 4881 ## Meanings 1. An illness caused by harmful germs entering the body. 2. The process of a disease being passed to or spreading inside the body. ## Examples - She took antibiotics to fight a chest infection. - Washing your hands helps prevent the infection of others. ## Derived Forms - agroinfection - anti-infection - antiinfection - autoinfection - coinfection - cross-infection - disinfection - hydrofection - hyperinfection - infectiology - infectional - infectionism ## Related Forms - exfection - infect - infectable - infected - infective ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *dʰeh₁- - Root: infection - Root: īnfectiō ## Etymology From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō. Equivalent to infect + -ion. ## AI Etymology Infection comes from Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō. Equivalent to infect + -ion. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. The historical line also includes *dʰeh₁-. ## Topics - Health & Medicine markdown