arthritis

See also: Arthritis

English

Etymology

From Latin arthrītis, from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτις (arthrîtis, “joint-disease, gout”), from ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”). By surface analysis, arthr- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/, [ɑɹˈθɹ(a)ɪɾɪs]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɐːˈθɹ(ɑ)ɪtɪs/, /aːˈθɹ(ɑ)ɪtɪs/

Noun

arthritis (countable and uncountable, plural arthritides or arthritises)

2. Inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders: any of several disease entities.

   Hyponyms: osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease; rheumatoid arthritis; septic arthritis

   • 1878, L[éon Athanese] Gosselin, “I. Hyperostosis of Right Femur. II. Necrosis of Left Tibia.”, in Lewis A. Stimson, transl., Clinical Lectures on Surgery, Delivered at the Hospital of La Charité, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C. Lea, part I (Surgical Diseases of Youth), page 42:

     The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;

   • 2012, Patrick White, The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories, →ISBN:

     She identified the dry grasp and the finger joints (both the Simpsons were dry-handed, and in the early stages of arthritis, so Dr Simpson had diagnosed).

   • 2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD‎^[1]:

     Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.

Derived terms

• acroarthritis
• antiarthritis
• arthritic
• arthritically
• arthritislike
• arthritism
• crystalline arthritis
• dermatoarthritis
• gouty arthritis
• monarthritis
• monoarthritis
• oligoarthritis
• osteoarthritis
• panarthritis
• pauciarthritis
• periarthritis
• polyarthritis
• Reiter's arthritis
• rheumatoid arthritis
• spondylarthritis
• spondyloarthritis
• urarthritis

Translations

inflammation of a joint

• Afrikaans: artritis
• Albanian: artrit (sq)
• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب الْمَفَاصِل m (iltihāb al-mafāṣil)
• Armenian: հոդաբորբ (hy) (hodaborb), արթրիտ (hy) (artʻrit)
• Assamese: বাতবিষ (batobix)
• Belarusian: артры́т m (artrýt)
• Bengali: বাত (bn) (bat)
• Bulgarian: артри́т m (artrít)
• Catalan: artritis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 關節炎 / 关节炎 (gwaan¹ zit³ jim⁴)

  Hakka: 關節炎 / 关节炎 (kôan-chiet-yàm)

  Mandarin: 關節炎 / 关节炎 (zh) (guānjiéyán)

• Czech: artritida (cs) f
• Danish: gigt c, ledbetændelse c
• Dhivehi: ހުޅުތައް ދުޅަވުން (huḷuta duḷavun̊)
• Esperanto: artrito
• Faroese: gikt f, liðabruni
• Finnish: niveltulehdus (fi), nivelreuma (fi)
• French: arthrite (fr)
• Galician: artrite (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Arthritis (de) f, Gelenkentzündung f
• Greek: αρθρίτιδα (el) f (arthrítida)

  Ancient: ἀρθρῖτις f (arthrîtis)

• Gujarati: સંધિવા (sandhivā)
• Hebrew: דלקת מפרקים f (daléket mifrakím)
• Hindi: गठिया (hi) (gaṭhiyā), संधि शोथ m (sandhi śoth)
• Hungarian: ízületi gyulladás (hu), artritisz (hu), arthritis (hu)
• Icelandic: gigt (is) f, liðbólga f
• Interlingua: arthritis
• Irish: airtríteas m
• Italian: artrite (it)
• Japanese: 関節炎 (ja) (かんせつえん, kansetsuen)
• Kazakh: шорбуын (şorbuyn)
• Khiamniungan Naga: ūtsēikīoh
• Korean: 관절염(關節炎) (ko) (gwanjeoryeom)
• Latin: podagra f (in the foot), cheragra f (in the hand); arthritis f
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Luhya: bubimbe
• Macedonian: воспаление на зглобовите n (vospalenie na zglobovite), артритис n (artritis)
• Malay: radang sendi, artritis (ms)
• Malayalam: സന്ധിവാതം (sandhivātaṁ)
• Maori: kaikōiwi, mate pona kakā
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: बाथ (bāth)
• Norwegian: artritt m, leddgikt c, leddbetennelse
• Plautdietsch: Rietinj f
• Polish: artretyzm (pl) m inan, zapalenie stawów n
• Portuguese: artrite (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਗਠੀਆ (gaṭhīā)
• Romanian: artrită (ro) f, artroză (ro) f
• Russian: артри́т (ru) m (artrít)
• Slovak: artritída (sk) f
• Spanish: artritis (es) f
• Swahili: jongo (sw)
• Swedish: ledinflammation (sv) c, artrit (sv)
• Tagalog: magansugpong
• Tamil: மூட்டழற்சி (mūṭṭaḻaṟci)
• Thai: ข้ออักเสบ (kɔ̂ɔ-àk-sèep)
• Turkish: artrit (tr), eklem iltihabı
• Ukrainian: артри́т (uk) m (artrýt)
• Vietnamese: viêm khớp (炎級)
• Welsh: gwynegon

See also

• arthralgia
• arthrosis
• rheumatism
• gout

Further reading

• “arthritis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “arthritis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “arthritis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Interlingua

Noun

arthritis (uncountable)

1. arthritis (inflammation of a joint)

Related terms

• arthritic

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτῐς (arthrîtĭs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [arˈtʰriː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈt̪riː.t̪is]
• Hyphenation: ar‧thrī‧tis

Noun

arthrītis f (genitive arthrītidis); third declension

1. arthritis (inflammation of a joint)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	arthrītis	arthrītidēs
genitive	arthrītidis	arthrītidum
dative	arthrītidī	arthrītidibus
accusative	arthrītidem	arthrītidēs
ablative	arthrītide	arthrītidibus
vocative	arthrītis	arthrītidēs

Further reading

• “arthritis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arthritis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.