uretritis

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish uretra

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

New Latin -ītislbor.

Spanish -itis

Spanish uretritis

From uretra + -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uɾeˈtɾitis/ [u.ɾeˈt̪ɾi.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: u‧re‧tri‧tis

Noun

uretritis f (uncountable)

1. urethritis

Further reading

• “uretritis”, 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