pericarditis

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek περικάρδιον (perikárdion)lbor.

English pericard(ium)

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

New Latin -itisder.

English -itis

English pericarditis

From pericard(ium) + -itis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌper.ɪ.kɑːrˈdaɪ.t̬əs/

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Noun

pericarditis (countable and uncountable, plural pericarditides or pericardites)

1. (cardiology, pathology) Inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart.

   Hypernyms: carditis, cardiopathy

   Coordinate terms: endocarditis, myocarditis, pancarditis, perimyoendocarditis

Derived terms

• endopericarditis
• myopericarditis
• pyopericarditis

Translations

inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart

• Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب التَّأْمُور m (iltihāb at-taʔmūr)
• Catalan: pericarditis (ca) f
• Czech: perikarditida f, zánět osrdečníku m
• Dutch: hartvliesontsteking f
• Esperanto: perikardiito
• Finnish: sydänpussitulehdus
• French: péricardite (fr) f
• German: Perikarditis f, Herzbeutelentzündung (de) f
• Greek: περικαρδίτιδα (el) f (perikardítida)
• Italian: pericardite (it) f
• Persian: پریکاردیت (fa) (perikârdit)
• Polish: zapalenie osierdzia n
• Romanian: pericardită (ro) f
• Russian: перикарди́т (ru) m (perikardít)
• Spanish: pericarditis (es) f
• Turkish: perikardit

Spanish

Etymology

From pericardio +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɾikaɾˈditis/ [pe.ɾi.kaɾˈð̞i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: pe‧ri‧car‧di‧tis

Noun

pericarditis f (plural pericarditis)

1. (cardiology, pathology) pericarditis

Further reading

• “pericarditis”, 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