sciatica

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Late Latin sciatica, feminine of sciaticus, from Ancient Greek ἰσχιαδικός (iskhiadikós), the adjective of ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪˈætɪkə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: sci‧at‧i‧ca

Noun

sciatica (countable and uncountable, plural sciaticas)

1. (pathology, neurology) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, characterised by pain radiating down through the buttocks and the back of the thigh.
   • 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     He picked up his own phone, shunned limos and preferred to walk if possible (sciatica later caused him to use a wheelchair) – as, for example, on the day after his election when he slipped away on foot to collect his suitcase and settle the bill at the modest pensione where he had been booked in before the conclave began.

Derived terms

• sciatic
• sciatically

Translations

neuralgia of the sciatic nerve

• Arabic: عِرْق النَّسَا m (ʕirq an-nasā), النَّسَا m (an-nasā)
• Bulgarian: ишиа̀с m (išiàs)
• Catalan: ciàtica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坐骨神經痛 / 坐骨神经痛 (zuògǔshénjīngtòng)

• Czech: ischias m, houser (cs) m
• Danish: iskias c
• Esperanto: iskiatalgio
• Faroese: iskias n, lærmønuverkur m
• Finnish: iskias (fi)
• French: sciatique (fr) m
• German: Ischias (de) f or m or n
• Greek: ισχιαλγία (el) f (ischialgía)

  Ancient Greek: ἰσχιάς f (iskhiás)

• Hebrew: נשית f (nashít)
• Hungarian: derékfájás (hu), isiász (hu), ülőidegzsába (hu), faridegzsába
• Japanese: 坐骨神経痛 (ja) (ざこつしんけいつう, zakotsushinkeitsū)
• Korean: 좌골신경통(坐骨神經痛) (jwagolsin'gyeongtong)
• Latin: ischias f
• Māori: kanikani
• Norman: sciatique f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: isjias m

  Nynorsk: isjias m

• Polish: rwa kulszowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: ciática f
• Russian: ишиас (ru) m (išias)
• Scottish Gaelic: siataig f
• Serbo-Croatian: ishijas (sh) m, išijas (sh) m, ishialgija (sh) f, šatika (sh) f
• Slovak: ischias m
• Spanish: ciática (es) f
• Tagalog: siyatika
• Turkish: siyatik (tr)

Further reading

• sciatica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃa.ti.ka/
• Rhymes: -atika
• Hyphenation: scià‧ti‧ca

Adjective

sciatica f sg

1. feminine singular of sciatico

Noun

sciatica f (plural sciatiche)

1. (pathology) sciatica

   Synonym: sciatalgia

Anagrams

• ascitica, icastica, stacciai