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• /ˈɪnfɛkt/
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From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).

Borrowed from Latin īnfectus, equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”).

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: aansteek — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Arabic: أَعْدَى (ʔaʕdā) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Asturian: infestar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Asturian: contaxar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Bulgarian: заразявам (zarazjavam) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Catalan: infectar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Catalan: contagiar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Chinese Mandarin: 傳染 /传染 (chuánrǎn) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Chinese Mandarin: 感染 (gǎnrǎn) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Choctaw: abekʋchi — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Czech: nakazit — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Czech: infikovat — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Danish: smitte — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Dutch: infecteren — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Dutch: besmetten — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Esperanto: infekti — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Finnish: tartuttaa — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• French: infecter — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Galician: infectar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Georgian: ინფიცირება (inpicireba) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Georgian: გადადება (gadadeba) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Georgian: დასნებოვნება (dasnebovneba) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Georgian: დასენიანება (dasenianeba) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• German: anstecken — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• German: infizieren — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Ancient Greek: ἀναπίμπλημι (anapímplēmi) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Hungarian: fertőz — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Hungarian: megfertőz — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Ido: infektar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Irish: galraigh — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Irish: ionfhabhtaigh — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Italian: contagiare — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Italian: infettare — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Japanese: 感染させる (kansen saseru) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Khmer: ឆ្លង (chlɑɑng) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Latvian: inficēt — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Lithuanian: užkrėsti — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Malay: jangkit — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Māori: whakapoke — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Norman: înfecter — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Norwegian Nynorsk: smitta — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Occitan: infectar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Polish: zakażać — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Polish: zakazić — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Polish: zarażać — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Polish: zarazić — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Portuguese: infectar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Portuguese: contagiar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Quechua: qatiy — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Romanian: infecta — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Romanian: contamina — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Russian: заража́ть (zaražátʹ) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Russian: зарази́ть (zarazítʹ) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Russian: инфици́ровать (inficírovatʹ) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Slovene: okužiti — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Spanish: infectar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Spanish: contagiar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Spanish: inficionar — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Swedish: smitta — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Swedish: infektera — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Tamil: தொற்று (toṟṟu) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Thai: ติดเชื้อ (dtìt-chʉ́ʉa) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Tibetan: རྣག་བསགས (rnag bsags) — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Vietnamese: nhiễm — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Vietnamese: lây — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Volapük: näfätön — to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness
• Bulgarian: заразявам (zarazjavam) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Chinese Mandarin: 感染 (gǎnrǎn) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Dutch: infecteren — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Finnish: tartuttaa — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• French: infecter — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Georgian: გადადება (gadadeba) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Georgian: გადაცემა (gadacema) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Georgian: გადასდებს (gadasdebs) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Georgian: გადასცემს (gadascems) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• German: anstecken — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• German: infizieren — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Hungarian: megfertőz — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Portuguese: contagiar — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Romanian: contagia — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Russian: заража́ть (zaražátʹ) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Russian: зарази́ть (zarazítʹ) — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Slovene: okužiti — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Spanish: contagiar — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Spanish: alborotar — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Swedish: smitta — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Vietnamese: lan truyền — to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion