arthritis

See also: Arthritis

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)θˈɹ(a)ɪtɪs/

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Noun

arthritis (countable and uncountable, plural arthritides or arthritises)

1. 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.

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

inflammation of a joint

• 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)
• Hungarian: ízületi gyulladás (hu), artritisz (hu), arthritis (hu)
• Icelandic: gigt (is) f, liðbólga f
• Irish: airtríteas m
• Italian: artrite (it)
• Japanese: 関節炎 (ja) (かんせつえん, kansetsuen)
• Kazakh: шорбуын (şorbuyn)
• Korean: 관절염(關節炎) (ko) (gwanjeoryeom)
• Latin: podagra f (in the foot), cheragra f (in the hand)
• 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, 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.
• “arthritis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “arthritis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Interlingua

Noun

arthritis (uncountable)

1. arthritis

Related terms

• arthritic