hepatitis

See also: Hepatitis

English

Etymology

From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/

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Noun

hepatitis (countable and uncountable, plural hepatitises or hepatitides)

1. Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.
   • 2013, Teri Shors, Understanding Viruses, 2nd edition

     Hepatitises B and C are the most important chronic viral infections of humans.

Derived terms

• enterohepatitis
• gastrohepatitis
• hepatitis A
• hepatitis B
• hepatitis C
• hepatitis D
• hepatitis delta
• hepatitis E
• perihepatitis
• steatohepatitis

 

Translations

liver inflammation

• Arabic: اَلتِّهَاب اَلْكَبِد‎ m (at-tihāb al-kabid)
• Bengali: হেপাটাইটিস (hepaṭaiṭis)
• Bulgarian: хепатит m (hepatit)
• Catalan: hepatitis f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肝炎 (gon¹ jim⁴)

  Mandarin: 肝炎 (zh) (gānyán)

• Czech: hepatitida f
• Danish: leverbetændelse, hepatitis
• Dutch: hepatitis (nl)
• Estonian: hepatiit
• Finnish: hepatiitti (fi), maksatulehdus
• French: hépatite (fr) f
• Galician: hepatite (gl) f
• German: Hepatitis (de) f, Leberentzündung (de) f
• Greek: ηπατίτιδα (el) f (ipatítida)
• Hindi: हेपेटाइटिस (hepeṭāiṭis)
• Hungarian: hepatitisz (hu), hepatitis (hu), májgyulladás (hu)
• Italian: epatite (it) f

• Japanese: 肝炎 (ja) (かんえん, kan'en)
• Korean: 간염 (ko) (ganyeom) (肝炎 (ko))
• Maori: mate ate kakā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hepatitt m

  Nynorsk: hepatitt m

• Persian: هپاتیت‎ (fa) (hepâtit)
• Polish: zapalenie wątroby n
• Portuguese: hepatite (pt) f
• Romanian: hepatită (ro) f
• Russian: гепати́т (ru) m (gepatít), воспале́ние пе́чени n (vospalénije péčeni)
• Spanish: hepatitis (es) f
• Swedish: hepatit (sv) c
• Tagalog: magang-atay
• Thai: ตับอักเสบ (dtàp-àk-sàyp)
• Turkish: hepatit (tr)
• Vietnamese: bệnh viêm gan

Further reading

• hepatitis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hepatitis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• hepatitis at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.pəˈti.tis/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.paˈti.tis/

Noun

hepatitis f (plural hepatitis)

1. hepatitis

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Spanish

Etymology

hepato- +‎ -itis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /epaˈtitis/, [epaˈt̪it̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Hyphenation: he‧pa‧ti‧tis

Noun

hepatitis f (plural hepatitis)

1. (pathology) hepatitis

Further reading

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