pan-dem-ic  [pan-dem-ik]

–adjective
1.
(of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
2.
general; universal: pandemic fear of atomic war.
–noun
3.
a pandemic disease.

Origin: 1660–70; <>pan- + dêm(os) the people + -os adj. suffix) + -ic