halitosis

English

Etymology

Coined by doctor Joseph William Howe in 1874 and described as being derived from the Latin hālitus (literally “whiff, breath”) and the Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, literally “disease”). It can be also understood as combination of the Latin hālitus and the English suffix +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /hæl.ɪˈtoʊs.ɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

halitosis (countable and uncountable, plural halitoses)

1. (pathology) The condition of having stale or foul-smelling breath.

Synonyms

• bromopnea

Related terms

• inhale
• exhale

Translations

condition of having foul-smelling breath

• Arabic: بَخَر‎ m (baḵar)
• Bulgarian: лош дъх m (loš dǎh)
• Catalan: halitosi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口臭 (zh) (kǒuchòu)

• Czech: halitóza (cs) f
• Dutch: foetor ex ore
• Esperanto: halitozo
• Finnish: pahanhajuinen hengitys, halitoosi (fi)
• French: halitose (fr)
• German: Mundgeruch (de) m
• Hebrew: באשת‎
• Icelandic: andremma f, andfýla (is) f
• Italian: alitosi (it)

• Japanese: 口臭 (ja) (こうしゅう, kōshū)
• Korean: 구취 (ko) (guchwi)
• Latin: fētor ēx ōre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halitose m, dårlig ånde m

• Persian: بوی بد دهان‎, گنده‌دهانی‎ (gande-dahānī)
• Polish: cuchnący oddech
• Portuguese: halitose (pt) f
• Russian: галито́з m (galitóz), неприя́тный за́пах и́зо рта́ m (neprijátnyj zápax ízo rtá)
• Spanish: halitosis (es) f
• Swedish: dålig andedräkt c
• Telugu: నోటి దుర్వాసన (nōṭi durvāsana)

See also

• bad breath

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aliˈtosis/, [a.liˈt̪o.sis]

Noun

halitosis f (plural halitosis)

1. halitosis

Further reading

• “halitosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014