hepatitis

See also: Hepatitis

English

Etymology

From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). By surface analysis, hepat- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hepatitis (countable and uncountable, plural hepatitises or hepatitides)

1. Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.
   • 2013, Teri Shors, Understanding Viruses, 2nd edition:

     Hepatitises B and C are the most important chronic viral infections of humans.

Derived terms

• cholangiohepatitis
• enterohepatitis
• gastrohepatitis
• hepatitis A
• hepatitis B
• hepatitis C
• hepatitis D
• hepatitis delta virus
• hepatitis E
• hepatitis externa
• hepatitis X
• non-A-E hepatitis
• perihepatitis
• steatohepatitis

Translations

liver inflammation

Arabic: اِلْتِهَاب الْكَبِد m (iltihāb al-kabid) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: гепатыт m (hjepatyt) Bengali: হেপাটাইটিস (bn) (hepaṭaiṭiś) Bulgarian: хепатит m (hepatit) Catalan: hepatitis (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 肝炎 (gon1 jim4) Mandarin: 肝炎 (zh) (gānyán) Czech: hepatitida f Danish: leverbetændelse, hepatitis Dutch: hepatitis (nl) Estonian: hepatiit Finnish: hepatiitti (fi), maksatulehdus French: hépatite (fr) f Galician: hepatite (gl) f German: Hepatitis (de) f, Leberentzündung (de) f Greek: ηπατίτιδα (el) f (ipatítida) Hindi: हेपेटाइटिस (hepeṭāiṭis) Hungarian: hepatitisz (hu), hepatitis (hu), májgyulladás (hu) Italian: epatite (it) f Japanese: 肝炎 (ja) (かんえん, kan'en) Khmer: រលាកថ្លើម (rɔliək thlaəm) Korean: 간염(肝炎) (ko) (ganyeom) Maori: mate ate kakā Norwegian: Bokmål: hepatitt m Nynorsk: hepatitt m Persian: Iranian Persian: هِپَاتیت (hepâtit) Plautdietsch: Jälesocht f Polish: zapalenie wątroby n Portuguese: hepatite (pt) f Romanian: hepatită (ro) f Russian: гепати́т (ru) m (gepatít), воспале́ние пе́чени n (vospalénije péčeni) Slovene: hepatitis (sl) m Spanish: hepatitis (es) f Swedish: hepatit (sv) c Tagalog: magang-atay Thai: ตับอักเสบ (dtàp-àk-sàyp) Turkish: hepatit (tr) Ukrainian: гепати́т m (hepatýt) Vietnamese: bệnh viêm gan

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.pəˈti.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.paˈti.tis]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

hepatitis f (invariable)

1. hepatitis

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

hepatitis

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar) +‎ -itis.

Noun

hepatitis c (singular definite hepatitissen, not used in plural form)

1. (pathology) hepatitis

   Synonym: leverbetændelse

Declension

Declension of hepatitis

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	hepatitis	hepatitissen
genitive	hepatitis'	hepatitissens

References

• “hepatitis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Spanish

Etymology

From hepato- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /epaˈtitis/ [e.paˈt̪i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: he‧pa‧ti‧tis

Noun

hepatitis f (plural hepatitis)

1. (pathology) hepatitis

Further reading

• “hepatitis”, 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