English Online Dictionary. What means hepatitis? What does hepatitis mean?
English
Etymology
From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). By surface analysis, hepat- + -itis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/
Noun
hepatitis (countable and uncountable, plural hepatitises or hepatitides)
- Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- “hepatitis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hepatitis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “hepatitis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.pəˈti.tis]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [e.paˈti.tis]
Noun
hepatitis f (invariable)
- hepatitis
Danish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar) + -itis.
Noun
hepatitis c (singular definite hepatitissen, not used in plural form)
- (pathology) hepatitis
- Synonym: leverbetændelse
Declension
References
- “hepatitis” in Den Danske Ordbog
Spanish
Etymology
From hepato- + -itis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /epaˈtitis/ [e.paˈt̪i.t̪is]
- Rhymes: -itis
- Syllabification: he‧pa‧ti‧tis
Noun
hepatitis f (plural hepatitis)
- (pathology) hepatitis
Further reading
- “hepatitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10