struma

See also: Struma

English

Etymology

From Latin strūma.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹuːmə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːmə

Noun

struma (countable and uncountable, plural strumas or strumae)

1. (pathology) Scrofula.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 186:

     This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.

2. (pathology) A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre.

Derived terms

• strumectomy
• strumiferous
• strumiform
• strumitis
• strumose
• strumosis
• strumous

Albanian

Noun

struma

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of strum

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch struma, from Latin strūma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstruma]
• Hyphenation: stru‧ma

Noun

struma (plural struma-struma)

1. (pathology) goiter, goitre: an enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland

   Synonym: gondok

Further reading

• “struma”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstru.ma/
• Rhymes: -uma
• Hyphenation: strù‧ma

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. struma

Anagrams

• Murtas

Latin

Etymology

From struō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstruː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstruː.ma]

Noun

strūma f (genitive strūmae); first declension

1. a scrofulous tumor, struma

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	strūma	strūmae
genitive	strūmae	strūmārum
dative	strūmae	strūmīs
accusative	strūmam	strūmās
ablative	strūmā	strūmīs
vocative	strūma	strūmae

Descendants

• → Czech: struma
• → Dutch: struma
  • → Indonesian: struma
• → English: struma
• → Estonian: struuma (learned)
• → French: strume (learned)
  • → Romanian: strumă (learned)
• → German: Struma
• → Ido: strumo (learned)
• → Italian: struma
• → Norwegian: struma
• → Serbo-Croatian: strȕma / стру̏ма
• → Swedish: struma
  • → Finnish: struuma (learned)
• ⇒ Translingual: Strumigenys
• >? Venetan: struma (inherited)

References

• “struma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “struma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "struma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “struma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, indefinite plural strumaer, definite plural strumaene)

1. (pathology) a goitre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, uncountable)

1. (pathology) a goitre

Venetan

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. effort, toil