bursitis

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English bursa

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

New Latin -itisder.

English -itis

English bursitis

From bursa + -itis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɝˈsaɪ.tɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bursitis (countable and uncountable, plural bursitides or bursitises)

1. (medicine) An inflammation of a bursa, most common in the shoulder, elbow or knee

Translations

inflammation of a bursa

• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب جِرَاب m (iltihāb jirāb)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黏液囊炎 (niányènángyán)

• Dutch: slijmbeursontsteking f, bursitis (nl) f
• Finnish: limapussintulehdus, bursiitti (fi)
• French: bursite (fr) f, hygroma (fr) m
• German: Schleimbeutelentzündung (de) f, Bursitis (de) f
• Hungarian: kötőszöveti zacskó gyulladása, nyáktömlőgyulladás, nyáktömlő gyulladás
• Icelandic: belgbólga (is) f
• Italian: borsite f
• Latin: bursitis f
• Polish: zapalenie kaletki maziowej n
• Romanian: bursită f
• Russian: бурси́т (ru) m (bursít)
• Spanish: bursitis f
• Turkish: bursit, bursitis

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buɾˈsitis/ [buɾˈsi.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: bur‧si‧tis

Noun

bursitis f (uncountable)

1. bursitis

Further reading

• “bursitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025