goitre

English

Alternative forms

• goiter

Etymology

Borrowed from French, either from Old French goitron (“throat, neck, goitre”), itself from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem (“throat, goitre-like protrusions”), from Latin guttur, or a back-formation from French goitreux (“goitered”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔɪ.tə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔɪ.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

goitre (plural goitres)

1. (UK) An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.

Derived terms

• German goitre
• goitred
• goitrous

Translations

enlargement of the neck

• Armenian: խպիպ (hy) (xpip)
• Bulgarian: гуша (bg) f (guša)
• Burmese: လည်ပင်းကြီးရောဂါ (my) (lanypang:kri:rau:ga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甲狀腺腫／甲状腺肿 (zh) (jiǎzhuàngxiànzhǒng), 甲状腺肿 (zh) (jiǎzhuàngxiànzhǒng)

• Dutch: bof (nl) m or f
• Estonian: hõõtsik, struuma
• Finnish: struuma (fi)
• French: goitre (fr) m
• German: Kropf (de) m, (medicine) Struma f, (medical, obsolete) Satthals m
• Greek: βρογχοκήλη (el) f (vronchokíli)
• Italian: gozzo (it) m
• Javanese: gondhok
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Krapp m
• Maori: tenga
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• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: struma m

  Nynorsk: struma m

• Persian: جخش (fa) (jaxš)
• Polish: wole (pl) n
• Portuguese: bócio m, escrófulas f pl, papeira (pt) f
• Romanian: gușă (ro) f
• Russian: зоб (ru) m (zob)
• Spanish: bocio (es) m, coto (es) m (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Northwestern Argentina, Peru, Venezuelan Andes - Argentinian and Venezuelan standard usage : bocio), güecho m (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), güegüecho m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Southern Mexico - Mexican standard usage : bocio)
• Swedish: struma (sv) c
• Tagalog: bosyo
• Thai: คอพอก
• Tibetan: ལྦ་བ (lba ba)
• Vietnamese: bướu (vi)

Anagrams

• egriot, goiter

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French

Alternative forms

• goître

Etymology

It appears to be a regional derivation from Old French goitron, from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem, from Latin guttur, or a regressive derivation from goitreux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwatʁ/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

goitre m (plural goitres)

1. goitre

Further reading

• “goitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.