murrain

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an infectious disease affecting cattle or other livestock

   A devastating murrain wiped out half the village's herds that winter.

From Middle English moreyne, from Anglo-Norman moryne and Old French morine ('plague, mortality'), from Vulgar Latin *morina, from Latin mori ('to die').

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