legionella

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • legion + -ella, from Latin legio.
  • Constructed from "American Legion", after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" (Legionnaires' disease) at a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia in 1976.

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