f 4 o 1 m 3 i 1 t 1 e 1
6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another
originA back-formation from fomites, plural of fomes, a borrowing of medical Latin fōmes (“tinder, kindling”), used figuratively to evoke the analogy of a spreading infection to a spreading fire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0