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noun, feminine

variole

/va.ʁjɔl/

noun, feminine/va.ʁjɔl/

smallpox

Il aurait effectué ce travail à la demande du collège de Santa Cruz, fondé par le vice-roi d'Espagne pour l'éducation des enfants de la noblesse aztèque qu'il comptait utiliser pour l'évangélisation du pays. Malheureusement, la plupart moururent de la variole.He would have carried out this work at the request of the Santa Cruz College, founded by the Viceroy of Spain to educate the children of the Aztec nobility, whom he intended to use for the evangelization of the country. Unfortunately, most of them died of smallpox.

Synonyms: petite vérole

Related: variolé, variole abortive, variole atténuée, variole aviaire, variole blanche, variole caprine, variole cohérente, variole confluente, variole des bêtes à laine, variole des vaches

From Middle French (plural variolez attested), borrowed from Occitan variola or directly from Medieval Latin variola, itself derived from Latin varius. Cognate to English variola, Italian vaiolo, Spanish viruela, Bulgarian вариола (variola).