gingivitis

See also: Gingivitis

English

Etymology

gingiva +‎ -itis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɪˈvaɪtəs/

Noun

gingivitis (usually uncountable, plural gingivitides or gingivites)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the gums or gingivae.

Derived terms

• acute membranous gingivitis
• acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis
• acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
• acute ulcerative gingivitis
• fusospirochetal gingivitis
• gingervitis
• phagedenic gingivitis
• ulcerative gingivitis

 

Translations

inflammation of the gums

• Catalan: gingivitis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牙齦炎／牙龈炎 (zh) (yáyínyán)

• Czech: gingivitida f
• Finnish: ientulehdus (fi)
• French: gingivite (fr) f
• Galician: xenxivite f
• German: Zahnfleischentzündung (de) f, Gingivitis (de) f (scientific)
• Greek: ουλίτιδα (el) f (oulítida)
• Haitian Creole: jenjivit
• Hungarian: ínygyulladás (hu), fogínygyulladás (hu)
• Icelandic: tannholdsbólga f
• Inuktitut: ᐃᒃᑭᓗᒃᑐᖅ ᑭᒍᑎᒨᖓᔪᒥᒃ (ikkiloktoq kicotimoongayomik)
• Italian: gengivite f
• Japanese: 歯齦炎 (しぎんえん, shigin'en), 歯肉炎 (しにくえん, shinikuen)
• Malay: radang gusi, gingivitis
• Persian: ژنژیویت (fa) (žanživit)
• Portuguese: gengivite (pt) f
• Romanian: gingivită (ro) f
• Russian: гингиви́т (ru) m (gingivít), воспале́ние дёсен n (vospalénije djósen)
• Spanish: gingivitis (es) f
• Tagalog: maganggilagid
• Turkish: diş eti iltihabı

See also

• periodentosis

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʒiɲ.ʒiˈβi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʒiɲ.ʒiˈvi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒiɲ.d͡ʒiˈvi.tis]

Noun

gingivitis f (uncountable)

1. gingivitis

Related terms

• geniva

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡinɡiʋǐtis/
• Hyphenation: gin‧gi‧vi‧tis

Noun

gingivìtis m (Cyrillic spelling гингивѝтис)

1. gingivitis

Declension

Declension of gingivitis

	singular
nominative	gingivitis
genitive	gingivitisa
dative	gingivitisu
accusative	gingivitis
vocative	gingivitisu
locative	gingivitisu
instrumental	gingivitisom

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xinxiˈbitis/ [xĩŋ.xiˈβ̞i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: gin‧gi‧vi‧tis

Noun

gingivitis f (uncountable)

1. gingivitis

Further reading

• “gingivitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014