arthritis

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Etymology

From Latin arthrītis, from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτις (arthrîtis, “joint-disease, gout”), from ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”). By surface analysis, arthr- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/, [ɑɹˈθɹ(a)ɪɾɪs]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɐːˈθɹ(ɑ)ɪtɪs/, /aːˈθɹ(ɑ)ɪtɪs/

Noun

arthritis (countable and uncountable, plural arthritides or arthritises)

2. Inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders: any of several disease entities.

   Hyponyms: osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease; rheumatoid arthritis; septic arthritis

   • 1878, L[éon Athanese] Gosselin, “I. Hyperostosis of Right Femur. II. Necrosis of Left Tibia.”, in Lewis A. Stimson, transl., Clinical Lectures on Surgery, Delivered at the Hospital of La Charité, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C. Lea, part I (Surgical Diseases of Youth), page 42:

     The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;

   • 2012, Patrick White, The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories, →ISBN:

     She identified the dry grasp and the finger joints (both the Simpsons were dry-handed, and in the early stages of arthritis, so Dr Simpson had diagnosed).

Derived terms

• acroarthritis
• antiarthritis
• arthritic
• arthritically
• arthritislike
• arthritism
• crystalline arthritis
• dermatoarthritis
• gouty arthritis
• monarthritis
• monoarthritis
• oligoarthritis
• osteoarthritis
• panarthritis
• pauciarthritis
• periarthritis
• polyarthritis
• Reiter's arthritis
• rheumatoid arthritis
• spondylarthritis
• spondyloarthritis
• urarthritis

Translations

inflammation of a joint

Albanian: artrit (sq) Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب الْمَفَاصِل m (iltihāb al-mafāṣil) Armenian: հոդաբորբ (hy) (hodaborb), արթրիտ (hy) (artʻrit) Assamese: বাতবিষ (batobix) Belarusian: артры́т m (artrýt) Bengali: বাত (bn) (bat) Bulgarian: артри́т m (artrít) Catalan: artritis (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 關節炎 / 关节炎 (gwaan1 zit3 jim4) Hakka: 關節炎 / 关节炎 (kôan-chiet-yàm) Mandarin: 關節炎 / 关节炎 (zh) (guānjiéyán) Czech: artritida (cs) f Danish: gigt c, ledbetændelse c Dhivehi: ހުޅުތައް ދުޅަވުން (huḷuta duḷavun̊) Esperanto: artrito Faroese: gikt f, liðabruni Finnish: niveltulehdus (fi), nivelreuma (fi) French: arthrite (fr) Galician: artrite (gl) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Arthritis (de) f, Gelenkentzündung f Greek: αρθρίτιδα (el) f (arthrítida) Ancient: ἀρθρῖτις f (arthrîtis) Gujarati: સંધિવા (sandhivā) Hebrew: דלקת מפרקים f (daléket mifrakím) Hindi: गठिया (hi) (gaṭhiyā), संधि शोथ m (sandhi śoth) Hungarian: ízületi gyulladás (hu), artritisz (hu), arthritis (hu) Icelandic: gigt (is) f, liðbólga f Interlingua: arthritis Irish: airtríteas m Italian: artrite (it) Japanese: 関節炎 (ja) (かんせつえん, kansetsuen) Kazakh: шорбуын (şorbuyn) Khiamniungan Naga: ūtsēikīoh Korean: 관절염(關節炎) (ko) (gwanjeoryeom) Latin: podagra f (in the foot), cheragra f (in the hand); arthritis f Latvian: please add this translation if you can Luhya: bubimbe Macedonian: воспаление на зглобовите n (vospalenie na zglobovite), артритис n (artritis) Malay: radang sendi, artritis (ms) Malayalam: സന്ധിവാതം (sandhivātaṁ) Maori: kaikōiwi, mate pona kakā Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Nepali: बाथ (bāth) Norwegian: artritt m, leddgikt c, leddbetennelse Plautdietsch: Rietinj f Polish: artretyzm (pl) m inan, zapalenie stawów n Portuguese: artrite (pt) f Punjabi: ਗਠੀਆ (gaṭhīā) Romanian: artrită (ro) f, artroză (ro) f Russian: артри́т (ru) m (artrít) Slovak: artritída (sk) f Spanish: artritis (es) f Swahili: jongo (sw) Swedish: ledinflammation (sv) c, artrit (sv) Tagalog: magansugpong Tamil: மூட்டழற்சி (mūṭṭaḻaṟci) Thai: ข้ออักเสบ (kɔ̂ɔ-àk-sèep) Turkish: artrit (tr), eklem iltihabı Ukrainian: артри́т (uk) m (artrýt) Vietnamese: viêm khớp (炎級) Welsh: gwynegon

See also

• arthralgia
• arthrosis
• rheumatism
• gout

Further reading

• “arthritis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “arthritis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “arthritis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Interlingua

Noun

arthritis (uncountable)

1. arthritis (inflammation of a joint)

Related terms

• arthritic

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτῐς (arthrîtĭs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [arˈtʰriː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈt̪riː.t̪is]
• Hyphenation: ar‧thrī‧tis

Noun

arthrītis f (genitive arthrītidis); third declension

1. arthritis (inflammation of a joint)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	arthrītis	arthrītidēs
genitive	arthrītidis	arthrītidum
dative	arthrītidī	arthrītidibus
accusative	arthrītidem	arthrītidēs
ablative	arthrītide	arthrītidibus
vocative	arthrītis	arthrītidēs

Further reading

• “arthritis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arthritis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.