erythromycin

English

Etymology

From (Streptomyces) erythr(eus) +‎ -o- +‎ -mycin (“antibiotic from a Streptomyces strain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˌɹɪθ.ɹə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪ.sɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˌɹɪθ.ɹəˈmaɪ.sn̩/

Noun

erythromycin (countable and uncountable, plural erythromycins)

1. (pharmacology) An antibiotic similar to penicillin, used for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.
2. A broad-spectrum macrolide antibiotic C₃₇H₆₇NO₁₃ produced by an actinomycete Saccharopolyspora erythraea (formerly Streptomyces erythreus) and similar in its effects to penicillin, administered orally or topically in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria.

Derived terms

• azaerythromycin
• azithromycin
• berythromycin
• clarithromycin
• dirithromycin
• flurithromycin
• gamithromycin
• homoerythromycin
• lexithromycin
• modithromycin
• nafithromycin
• oxoerythromycin
• roxithromycin
• telithromycin
• tulathromycin

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: إِرِيثْرُومِيسِين (ʔirīṯrūmīsīn)
• Armenian: էրիթրոմիցին (ēritʻromicʻin)
• Basque: eritromizina
• Belarusian: эрытроміцін m (erytrómicin)
• Bulgarian: еритромицин m (eritromicin)
• Catalan: eritromicina f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅黴素 / 红霉素 (hung⁴ mei⁴ sou³)

  Mandarin: 红霉素 (zh) (hóngméisù)

• Dhivehi: އެރިތްރޯމައިސިން (erit̊rōmaisin̊)
• Dutch: erytromycine (nl) f
• Estonian: erütromütsiin
• Finnish: erytromysiini (fi)
• French: érythromycine (fr) f
• Georgian: ერითრომიცინი (eritromicini)
• German: Erythromycin n
• Haitian Creole: eritromisin
• Hindi: इरिथ्रोमाइसिन (irithromāisin)
• Hungarian: eritromicin (hu)
• Icelandic: erýtrómýcín m
• Indonesian: eritromisin
• Italian: eritromicina (it) f
• Japanese: エリスロマイシン (ja) (erisuromaishin)
• Korean: 에리트로마이신 (eriteuromaisin)
• Latvian: eritromicīns m
• Lithuanian: eritromicinas m
• Macedonian: еритромицин m (eritromicin)
• Occitan: eritromicina f
• Odia: ଏରିଥ୍ରୋମାଇସିନ (erithromāisina)
• Polish: erytromycyna f
• Portuguese: eritromicina f
• Romanian: eritromicină (ro) f
• Russian: эритромици́н (ru) m (eritromicín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еритромѝцӣн m

  Latin: eritromìcīn (sh) m

• Slovak: erytromycín m
• Slovene: eritromicin m
• Spanish: eritromicina f
• Swedish: erytromycin (sv) n
• Thai: อิริโทรมัยซิน (ì rí toh mai sin)
• Turkish: eritromisin
• Ukrainian: еритроміцин m (erytromicyn)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: эритромицин (uz)

  Latin: eritromitsin

• Walloon: eritromicene f

References

• “erythromycin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “erythromycin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.