Malaria

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 62

ma-lā′ri-a, n. the poisonous air arising from marshy districts, producing fever, .: miasma: the fever so caused.— adjs. Malā′rio us , Malā′rial , Malā′rian . [It. mal' aria —L. mal us , bad, aër , air.]