pappatacifever

pap·pa·ta·ci fever (pä'pə-täʹchē) n.

See sandfly fever.

  [Italian pappataci, sandfly : pappare, to eat (from Latin pappāre, from pappa, food) + -taci, silently (from tacito, past participle of tacere, to be silent, from Latin tacēre).]

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