diabetes
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbitiz/, [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾiz], /ˌdaɪəˈbitɪs/, [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾɪs]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌdɑɪəˈbiːtiːz/
Audio (Queensland): (file)
- (Philippines) IPA(key): /dajaˈbitis/
Noun
[edit]diabetes (uncountable)
- (pathology) 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 September 7, Ian Sample, The Guardian:
- 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.
- (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 […] .
Synonyms
[edit]- (group of metabolic diseases): diabetes mellitus, DM, diabeetus (humorous)
Hyponyms
[edit]- (group of metabolic diseases): IDDM, juvenile diabetes, NIDDM
Derived terms
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Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]diabetes m inan
- diabetes mellitus
- Synonyms: cukrovka, (dated) úplavice cukrová
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “diabetes”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “diabetes”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- diabetes in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]diabetes c (singular definite diabetesen, not used in plural form)
- diabetes
- Synonym: sukkersyge
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | diabetes | diabetesen |
genitive | diabetes' | diabetesens |
Further reading
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]diabetes m (uncountable)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: diabetes
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin diabētēs.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈdiɑbe(ː)t(ː)es/, [ˈdiɑ̝ˌbe̞(ː)t̪(ː)e̞s̠]
- Rhymes: -etes
- Syllabification(key): di‧a‧be‧tes
Noun
[edit]diabetes
- diabetes
- Synonym: sokeritauti
- Hyponyms: nuoruusiän diabetes (type I), aikuisdiabetes (type II)
Declension
[edit]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. |
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “diabetes”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch diabetes, from Latin diabetes, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
Alternative forms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowing from Ancient Greek δῐᾰβήτης (diabḗtēs, “siphon; diabetes”), from δῐᾰβαίνω (diabaínō, “to step across, pass over”) + -της (-tēs, “-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /di.aˈbeː.teːs/, [d̪iäˈbeːt̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.aˈbe.tes/, [d̪iäˈbɛːt̪es]
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- → English: diabetes
References
[edit]- “diabetes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)
- diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]“diabetes” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)
- diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]“diabetes” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: di‧a‧be‧tes
Noun
[edit]diabetes f or m (invariable)
- diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)
Usage notes
[edit]- The gender of this Portuguese noun varies from speaker to speaker. Some use it as a masculine noun and others as a feminine noun.
Noun
[edit]diabetes f pl or m pl
References
[edit]- “diabetes”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /djaˈbetes/ [d̪jaˈβ̞e.t̪es]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -etes
- Syllabification: dia‧be‧tes
Noun
[edit]diabetes f (plural diabetes)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “diabetes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]diabetes c
- diabetes (diabetes mellitus)
- Synonym: (less common) sockersjuka
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | diabetes | diabetes |
definite | diabetesen, diabetes | diabetesens, diabetes | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Related terms
[edit]- diabetiker (“a diabetic”)
- diabetisk (“diabetic”)
References
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷem-
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- Rhymes:Finnish/etes/4 syllables
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