Pestis
- Plague & Pestilence, pestis is Latin for plague/pestilence.
- A Latin word for the plague, a disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium species.
- Pestis, the daemon/personification of pestilence, plague, illness, sickness and disease, and the Roman counterpart of Nosos/Nosoi, (and is portrayed either as a single individual daemon, or as a number of daimones).