candida

Borrowed from translingual Candida, from Latin candidā.

candida (plural candidas)

1. (medicine, informal) A yeast of the genus Candida, usually specifically Candida albicans
   • 1988, January 22, “Robert McClory”, in The Yeast of Our Problems‎:

     "What we're finding," says Marshall, "is that if we lean only on candida and don't treat other molds affecting the system, we fail.

• anticandida
• anticandidal
• candida-like

• candida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• candida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

candida f (plural candide)

1. candida (fungus)

• candidosi

candida

1. feminine singular of candido

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

candida

1. inflection of candidare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

candida

1. inflection of candidus:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

candidā

1. feminine ablative singular of candidus

• candida in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Latin Candida.

candida f (uncountable)

1. thrush