hepatitis

See also: Hepatitis

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yekʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *-r̥

Proto-Indo-European *yókʷr̥

Proto-Hellenic *yêkʷər

Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar)bor.

Latin hēpar

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

Latin -ītis

Latin hēpatītisder.

English hepatitis

From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). By surface analysis, hepat- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hepatitis (countable and uncountable, plural hepatitises or hepatitides)

1. (pathology) 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

• cholangiohepatitis
• enterohepatitis
• gastrohepatitis
• hepatitis A
• hepatitis B
• hepatitis C
• hepatitis D
• hepatitis delta virus
• hepatitis E
• hepatitis externa
• hepatitis X
• non-A-E hepatitis
• perihepatitis
• steatohepatitis

Descendants

• → Ulithian: heptaeyres

Translations

liver inflammation

• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب الْكَبِد m (iltihāb al-kabid)
• Armenian: լյարդաբորբ (hy) (lyardaborb), հեպատիտ (hy) (hepatit)
• Belarusian: гепатыт m (hjepatyt)
• Bengali: হেপাটাইটিস (bn) (hepaṭaiṭiś)
• Bulgarian: хепатит m (hepatit)
• Catalan: hepatitis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肝炎 (gon¹ jim⁴)

  Mandarin: 肝炎 (zh) (gānyán)

• Czech: hepatitida f
• Danish: leverbetændelse, hepatitis
• Dutch: hepatitis (nl) f, leverontsteking f
• 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)
• Khmer: រលាកថ្លើម (rɔliək thlaəm)
• Korean: 간염(肝炎) (ko) (ganyeom)
• Māori: mate ate kakā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hepatitt m

  Nynorsk: hepatitt m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: هِپَاتیت (hepâtit)

• Plautdietsch: Jälesocht f
• Polish: zapalenie wątroby n
• Portuguese: hepatite (pt) f
• Romanian: hepatită (ro) f
• Russian: гепати́т (ru) m (gepatít), воспале́ние пе́чени n (vospalénije péčeni)
• Slovene: hepatitis (sl) m
• Spanish: hepatitis (es) f
• Swahili: homa ya ini (sw)
• Swedish: hepatit (sv) c
• Tagalog: magang-atay
• Thai: ตับอักเสบ (dtàp-àk-sàyp)
• Turkish: hepatit (tr)
• Ukrainian: гепати́т m (hepatýt)
• Ulithian: heptaeyres
• Vietnamese: viêm gan

Further reading

• “hepatitis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “hepatitis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “hepatitis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• hepatitis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ə.pəˈti.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [e.paˈti.tis]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

hepatitis f (invariable)

1. hepatitis

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar) +‎ -itis.

Noun

hepatitis c (singular definite hepatitissen, not used in plural form)

1. (pathology) hepatitis

   Synonym: leverbetændelse

Declension

Declension of hepatitis

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	hepatitis	hepatitissen
genitive	hepatitis'	hepatitissens

References

• “hepatitis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish hepato-

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

New Latin -ītislbor.

Spanish -itis

Spanish hepatitis

From hepato- + -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /epaˈtitis/ [e.paˈt̪i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: he‧pa‧ti‧tis

Noun

hepatitis f (plural hepatitis)

1. (pathology) hepatitis

Further reading

• “hepatitis”, 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