fatal
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fatal /ˈfeɪt(ə)l/
▶adjective causing death.
■ leading to failure or disaster.
– derivatives
fatally adverb.
fatally adverb.
– origin ME (in the senses ‘destined by fate’ and ‘ominous’): from OFr., or from L. fatalis, from fatum (see fate).
'fatal' also found in these Oxford entries:
bird flu
- braxy
- BSE
- cholera
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- Ebola fever
- gid
- hamartia
- kuru
- Lassa fever
- life-threatening
- Marburg disease
- mortal
- myxomatosis
- Patau's syndrome
- pestilence
- pneumocystis
- St Louis encephalitis
- vital
- yellow fever
