diabetes
English
Etymology
From Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”).
Pronunciation
Noun
diabetes (uncountable)
- Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. [from 19th c.]
- 2020, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 7 September:
- In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand.
- 2020, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 7 September:
- (slang, humorous) Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
- 2017 August 6, “The craziest things you have to eat in New York City”, in Silver Stories[1]:
- This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap.
- Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. [from 15th c.]
- 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, The Physical Directory:
- A Sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continuall pissing.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- The lady laboured under a Diabetes, in consequence of having used the waters injudiciously for another complaint; and, that she might not be an impediment to the carriage, by ordering it to halt,as often as she should have occasion to disembogue, she had provided herself with a leathern contrivance […] .
- 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, The Physical Directory:
Synonyms
- (group of metabolic diseases): diabetes mellitus, DM, diabeetus (humorous)
Hyponyms
- (group of metabolic diseases): IDDM, juvenile diabetes, NIDDM
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Czech
Noun
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Dutch
Etymology
From Latin diabetes mellitus, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”). This refers to the excessive amounts of urine produced by sufferers. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Noun
diabetes m (uncountable)
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Descendants
- → Indonesian: diabetes
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdiɑbe(ː)t(ː)es/, [ˈdiɑ̝ˌbe̞(ː)t̪(ː)e̞s̠]
- Rhymes: -etes
- Syllabification(key): di‧a‧be‧tes
Noun
diabetes
Declension
Inflection of diabetes (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | diabetes | diabetekset | |
genitive | diabeteksen | diabetesten diabeteksien | |
partitive | diabetesta | diabeteksia | |
illative | diabetekseen | diabeteksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | diabetes | diabetekset | |
accusative | nom. | diabetes | diabetekset |
gen. | diabeteksen | ||
genitive | diabeteksen | diabetesten diabeteksien | |
partitive | diabetesta | diabeteksia | |
inessive | diabeteksessa | diabeteksissa | |
elative | diabeteksesta | diabeteksista | |
illative | diabetekseen | diabeteksiin | |
adessive | diabeteksella | diabeteksilla | |
ablative | diabetekselta | diabeteksilta | |
allative | diabetekselle | diabeteksille | |
essive | diabeteksena | diabeteksina | |
translative | diabetekseksi | diabeteksiksi | |
abessive | diabeteksetta | diabeteksitta | |
instructive | — | diabeteksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- sokeritauti (ambiguous)
- nuoruusiän diabetes (type I)
- aikuisdiabetes (type II)
Derived terms
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch diabetes, from Latin diabetes, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).
Pronunciation
Noun
diabetes (first-person possessive diabetesku, second-person possessive diabetesmu, third-person possessive diabetesnya)
- (medicine) diabetes, a general term referring to any of various disorders characterized by excessive urination (polyuria).
- (medicine, colloquial) diabetes mellitus, a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia, especially after eating, classically characterized by excessive urination.
- Synonyms: diabetes melitus, penyakit kencing manis, penyakit gula
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Hyponyms
Further reading
- “diabetes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowing from Ancient Greek δῐᾰβήτης (diabḗtēs, “siphon; diabetes”), from δῐᾰβαίνω (diabaínō, “to step across, pass over”) + -της (-tēs, “-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /di.aˈbeː.teːs/, [d̪iäˈbeːt̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.aˈbe.tes/, [d̪iäˈbɛːt̪es]
Noun
diabētēs m (genitive diabētae); first declension
- a siphon
- Synonym: sīphō
- 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.10:
- Naturali enim spiritu omne alimentum virentis, quasi quaedam anima, per medullam trunci veluti per siphonem quem diabeten vocant mechanici, trahitur in summum: […]
- For by natural respiration all the nourishment of a green plant is drawn, as a sort of vital breath, into the highest point, passing through the pith of the stem as though through a siphon, which mechanics call diabetes; […]
- Naturali enim spiritu omne alimentum virentis, quasi quaedam anima, per medullam trunci veluti per siphonem quem diabeten vocant mechanici, trahitur in summum: […]
- (New Latin, pathology) diabetes
Inflection
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | diabētēs | diabētae |
Genitive | diabētae | diabētārum |
Dative | diabētae | diabētīs |
Accusative | diabētēn | diabētās |
Ablative | diabētē | diabētīs |
Vocative | diabētē | diabētae |
Descendants
- → English: diabetes
References
- “diabetes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).
Pronunciation
Noun
diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)
- diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)
Synonyms
References
“diabetes” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).
Pronunciation
Noun
diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)
- diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)
Synonyms
References
“diabetes” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Noun
diabetes m or f (uncountable)
- diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)
Usage notes
- The gender of this Portuguese noun varies from speaker to speaker. Some use it as a masculine noun and others as a feminine noun.
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
diabetes f (plural diabetes)
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Further reading
- “diabetes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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