pneumonia

See also: pneumònia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía, “lung disease”), from πνεύμων (pneúmōn, “lung”) + -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /njuˈməʊniə/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /nuˈmoʊniə/, /nəˈmoʊniə/

Noun

pneumonia (usually uncountable, plural pneumonias or pneumoniæ)

1. An acute or chronic inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, or sometimes by physical or chemical irritants.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days^[1]:

     He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school.

Derived terms

• single pneumonia
• double pneumonia
• pneumocystis pneumonia
• pneumococcal pneumonia

Translations

inflammation of the lungs

• Arabic: ذَات اَلرِّئَة‏‎ m (ḏāt ar-riʾa)
• Arikara: naniítuʾ
• Armenian: թոքաբորբ (hy) (tʿokʿaborb), թոքերի բորբոքում (tʿokʿeri borbokʿum)
• Assiniboine: caǧú bóbi, caǧú nadàboǧą
• Belarusian: пнеўманія f (pneŭmaníja)
• Catalan: pneumònia (ca) f, pulmonia (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎪᎳ ᎡᎯ ᎤᏗᎴᎬᏍᎬ (gola ehi udilegvsgv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肺炎 (zh) (fèiyán)

• Classical Nahuatl: ōpōchehēcatl
• Czech: zápal plic (cs) m, pneumonie (cs) m
• Dhivehi: ނިއުމޯނިޔާ‏‎ (niumōniyā)
• Dutch: longontsteking (nl)
• Finnish: keuhkokuume (fi), pneumonia (fi)
• French: pneumonie (fr) f
• German: Lungenentzündung (de) f; Pneumonie (de) f (scientific)
• Greek: πνευμονία (el) f (pnevmonía)
• Hungarian: tüdőgyulladás (hu)
• Ido: pulmonito (io)
• Inuktitut: ᐳᕝᕕᕆᓂᖅ (puvviriniq)
• Irish: aicíd na scamhóg f
• Italian: polmonite (it) f
• Japanese: 肺炎 (ja) (はいえん, haien),
• Khmer: ជម្ងឺរលាកទងសួត (cumŋɨɨ rɔliek tɔɔŋ suǝt), រោគរលាកសួត (rook rɔliek suǝt)

• Korean: 폐렴 (ko) (pyeryeom) (肺炎 (ko))
• Ladin: pontes f pl
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: numuniyewine
• Maori: mate pūkahu kakā, mate niumōnia, niumōnia
• Navajo: dikos ntsaaígíí
• Norman: enfliammâtion d'ponmons f
• Pawnee: raritukskucuʾ (South Band)
• Persian: ذات‌الریه‏‎ (zât-or-riye)
• Polish: zapalenie płuc (pl) n
• Portuguese: pneumonia (pt) f
• Russian: пневмони́я (ru) f (pnevmoníja), воспале́ние лёгких (ru) n (vospalénije ljóxkix)
• Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-clèibhe m
• Slovene: pljučnica (sl) f
• Southern East Cree: ᐹᒋᐦᐸᓀᐸᔨᐧᐋᔅᐱᓀᐧᐃᓐ (paachihpanepayiwaaspinewin)
• Spanish: pulmonía (es) f, neumonía (es) f
• Swedish: lunginflammation (sv) c
• Tagalog: magambaga, magandahumbaga, pulmunya
• Tamil: நுரையீரல் அழற்சி (nuraiyīral aḻaṟci)
• Tlingit: k'inashóo
• Turkish: zatürre (tr), pnömoni (tr)
• Ukrainian: пневмонія f (pnevmoníja)
• Vietnamese: viêm phổi
• Volapük: luegaflamat

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Finnish

Noun

pneumonia

1. (pathology) pneumonia

Declension

Inflection of pneumonia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		pneumonia	pneumoniat
genitive		pneumonian	pneumonioiden pneumonioitten
partitive		pneumoniaa	pneumonioita
illative		pneumoniaan	pneumonioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pneumonia	pneumoniat
accusative	nom.	pneumonia	pneumoniat
	gen.	pneumonian
genitive		pneumonian	pneumonioiden pneumonioitten pneumoniainrare
partitive		pneumoniaa	pneumonioita
inessive		pneumoniassa	pneumonioissa
elative		pneumoniasta	pneumonioista
illative		pneumoniaan	pneumonioihin
adessive		pneumonialla	pneumonioilla
ablative		pneumonialta	pneumonioilta
allative		pneumonialle	pneumonioille
essive		pneumoniana	pneumonioina
translative		pneumoniaksi	pneumonioiksi
instructive		—	pneumonioin
abessive		pneumoniatta	pneumonioitta
comitative		—	pneumonioineen

Synonyms

• (pneumonia): keuhkokuume

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Medieval Latin pneumonia, from Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌpnew.mo.ˈni.ɐ/, /pi.ˌnew.mo.ˈni.ɐ/

Noun

pneumonia f (plural pneumonias)

1. (pathology) pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:pneumonia.