English

horsepox

From horse + pox.

A compound of horse + pox

Proto-Germanic *hrussą ‘horse’

Proto-West Germanic *hross ‘horse’

Old English hors ‘horse’

Middle English hors ‘a horse’

English horse

Middle English pocke

English pox

Today it means

noun A disease of horses caused by an orthopoxvirus.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / horsepox