gastritis

English

Micrograph showing gastritis.

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: gastr- +‎ -itis, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

gastritis (usually uncountable, plural gastritides)

1. (pathology, medicine) Inflammation of the lining of the stomach, characterised by nausea, loss of appetite, and upper abdominal discomfort or pain.

Derived terms

• enterogastritis
• pangastritis

Translations

inflammation of the lining of the stomach

• Albanian: gastrit (sq) m
• Armenian: գաստրիտ (hy) (gastrit), ստամոքսաբորբ (hy) (stamokʻsaborb)
• Aymara: puraka tini
• Azerbaijani: qastrit
• Belarusian: гастрыт m (hastryt)
• Bengali: গ্যাস্ট্রিক (gêsṭrik)
• Bulgarian: гастрит m (gastrit)
• Burmese: ဘေးထိုးရင်ကျပ်နာ (my) (bhe:htui:rangkyapna)
• Catalan: gastritis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 胃炎 (ūi-iām)

  Mandarin: 胃炎 (zh) (wèiyán)

• Czech: gastritida (cs) f
• Danish: gastritis c, mavekatar c
• Dutch: gastritis (nl) f
• Estonian: gastriit
• Finnish: mahakatarri (fi), gastriitti (fi)
• French: gastrite (fr) f
• Galician: gastrite (gl) f
• Georgian: გასტრიტი (gasṭriṭi)
• German: Gastritis (de) f, Magenschleimhautentzündung (de) f
• Greek: γαστρίτιδα (el) f (gastrítida)
• Hebrew: גסטריטיס (gastritis)
• Hindi: आमाशयार्ति (āmāśyārti)
• Hungarian: gyomorhurut (hu), gasztritisz (hu)
• Ido: gastrito (io)
• Indonesian: gastritis (id)
• Irish: gaistríteas m
• Italian: gastrite (it) f
• Japanese: 胃炎 (ja) (いえん, ien)
• Kazakh: гастрит (gastrit)
• Korean: 위염 (wiyeom)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ûrkulî

• Kyrgyz: гастрит (gastrit)
• Latvian: gastrīts m
• Lithuanian: gastritas (lt)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zoerbraand

• Macedonian: гастритис (gastritis)
• Malay: radang perut, gastritis
• Malayalam: ഉദരവീക്കം (udaravīkkaṁ)
• Nepali: अम्लपित्त (amlapitta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gastritt m, magekatarr m

  Nynorsk: gastritt m, magekatarr m

• Odia: ପାକସ୍ଥଳୀ ପ୍ରଦାହ (pākasthaḷi pradāha)
• Persian: ورم معده (fa)
• Portuguese: gastrite (pt) f
• Romanian: gastrită (ro) f
• Russian: гастри́т (ru) m (gastrít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гастрѝтис m

  Latin: gastrìtis (sh) m

• Slovak: gastritída (sk) f
• Slovene: gastritis m
• Spanish: gastritis (es) f
• Swedish: gastrit (sv) c, magkatarr (sv) c
• Tagalog: pamamaga ng sikmura, magansikmura
• Thai: โรคกระเพาะอาหาร (rôhk grà-pór aa-hăan)
• Turkish: gastrit (tr)
• Tuvan: гастрит (gastrit)
• Ukrainian: гастрит m (hastryt)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: гастрит (uz) (gastrit)

  Latin: gastrit (uz)

• Vietnamese: viêm dạ dày
• Yakut: гастрит (gastrit)

Catalan

Etymology

From gastro- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ɡəsˈtɾi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ɡasˈtɾi.tis]

Noun

gastritis f (uncountable)

1. gastritis

Further reading

• “gastritis”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “gastritis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “gastritis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “gastritis”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr) +‎ -itis.

Noun

gastritis c (singular definite gastritissen, not used in plural form)

1. (pathology) gastritis

   Synonym: mavekatar

Declension

Declension of gastritis

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	gastritis	gastritissen
genitive	gastritiss	gastritissens

References

• “gastritis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Spanish

Etymology

From gastro- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡasˈtɾitis/ [ɡasˈt̪ɾi.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: gas‧tri‧tis

Noun

gastritis f (uncountable)

1. (pathology, medicine) gastritis

Further reading

• “gastritis”, 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