hepatite

See also: hépatite

English

Etymology

From Latin hepatitis, an unknown precious stone, from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”); compare French hépatite.

Noun

hepatite (countable and uncountable, plural hepatites)

1. (mineralogy, dated) A variety of barite that emits a foetid odour when rubbed or heated.
   • 1823, [1816], William Phillips, An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy, 3rd edition, page lii:

     Carbon forms the basis of several of the combustibles; as coal, bitumen, amber, &c.; and it enters into the composition of a few minerals in small proportion; in the Aberthaw limestone, the hepatite, semi-opal, and in clay-slate, not exceeding 1 or 2 per cent.; […] .

Translations

barite — see barite

Further reading

• Baryte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mindat
• “hepatite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Galician

Noun

hepatite f (plural hepatites)

1. (pathology) hepatitis

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin hēpatītis, from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.paˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.pɐˈti.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -it͡ʃi, (Portugal) -itɨ
• Hyphenation: he‧pa‧ti‧te

Noun

hepatite f (plural hepatites)

1. (pathology) hepatitis
   • 2025 June 13, Jorge Jaber, Saúde Mental em pauta: uma reflexão sobre diversos tema contemporâneos que afetam diretamente sua saúde‎^[1], Livros Ilimitados, →ISBN:

     É o caso das hepatites virais, que, entre 1999 е 2019, atingiram cerca de 675 mil brasileiros, com mais de 75 mil vítimas fatais.

     Such is the case with viral hepatitis, which, between 1999 and 2019, affected around 675,000 Brazilians, with more than 75,000 fatalities.

2. (mineralogy) hepatite

Further reading

• “hepatite”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “hepatite”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “hepatite”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “hepatite”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026