struma

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin strūma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹuːmə/

Noun

struma (countable and uncountable, plural strumas or strumae)

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

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin.

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. struma

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Latin

Etymology

From struō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstruː.ma/, [ˈs̠t̪ruːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstru.ma/, [ˈst̪ruːmä]

Noun

strūma f (genitive strūmae); first declension

1. a scrofulous tumor, struma

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	strūma	strūmae
Genitive	strūmae	strūmārum
Dative	strūmae	strūmīs
Accusative	strūmam	strūmās
Ablative	strūmā	strūmīs
Vocative	strūma	strūmae

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’s 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.

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Venetian

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. effort, toil