hernia

See also: hérnia and hèrnia

English

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hernia

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). See also yarn and cord.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)niə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)niə

Noun

hernia (plural hernias or herniae or (dated) herniæ)

1. (pathology) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.

   give someone a hernia

   have a hernia

Derived terms

• Bochdalek hernia
• hernial
• herniary
• herniate
• herniated
• herniation
• hernioid
• herniology
• herniorrhaphy
• herniotomy
• hiatus hernia
• Morgagni hernia
• peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia
• pseudohernia
• umbilical hernia

Translations

part of the body protruding abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part

Afrikaans: breuk (af) Albanian: hernie (sq) f, dhjamth m, rrënxim (sq) m Arabic: فَتْق (ar) m (fatq) Armenian: աղեթափություն (hy) (aġetʻapʻutʻyun) Azerbaijani: dəbə, yırtıq (az), qrija Bashkir: бүҫер (büśer) Bikol Central: erniya, tagunton Bulgarian: херния (bg) f (hernija) Catalan: hèrnia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 疝氣 / 疝气 (zh) (shànqì), (colloquial) 小腸串氣 / 小肠串气 (xiǎocháng chuànqì) Czech: kýla (cs) f Danish: brok Dutch: hernia (nl) f, breuk (nl) f Esperanto: hernio Estonian: song (et) Finnish: tyrä (fi) French: hernie (fr) f Galician: hernia (gl) f Georgian: თიაქარი (ka) (tiakari) German: Bruch (de) m, (for clarity) Leistenbruch (de), Eingeweidebruch (de), (medical parlance) Hernie (de) f Greek: κήλη (el) f (kíli) Ancient: κήλη f (kḗlē) Hebrew: בקע (he) m (béka) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: sérv (hu) Icelandic: haull m Ingrian: grььža Irish: maidhm sheicne f, heirne f, snaidhm sheicne f (strangulated) Italian: ernia (it) f Japanese: ヘルニア (herunia), 脱腸 (datchō) Kazakh: жарық (jaryq) Khmer: ក្លន (km) (klɑɑn) Korean: please add this translation if you can Kyrgyz: чурку (curku) Latin: hernia f, rāmex m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: išvarža f, trūkis m Maltese: bażwa f, fetqa f, ernja f Maori: whaturama Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: hadzííyá Neapolitan: guàllara, guallecchia, ntoscia, pallone, paposcia, ruttura Nepali: please add this translation if you can Norman: rompeuse f (Jersey) Norwegian: brokk Ottoman Turkish: فتق (fıtık) Plautdietsch: Bruch m Polish: przepuklina (pl) f Portuguese: hérnia (pt) f Romanian: hernie (ro) f Russian: гры́жа (ru) f (grýža) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ки̏ла f Roman: kȉla (sh) f Sicilian: vàḍḍara f, guàḍḍara f, guàḍḍira f, vàḍḍira f Slovak: prietrž (sk) f Spanish: hernia (es) f Swedish: bråck (sv) n Tagalog: luslos (tl) Thai: ไส้เลื่อน (th) (sâi-lʉ̂ʉan) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: fıtık (tr) Ukrainian: гри́жа f (hrýža) Uzbek: dabba (uz), churra (uz) Vietnamese: thoát vị (vi) Welsh: torllengig m, torgest f

See also

• truss

Anagrams

• Neriah, Rehani, hairen, hearin'

Albanian

Noun

hernia f

1. definite nominative singular of hernie

Catalan

Verb

hernia

1. inflection of herniar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH-ni-eh₂, from *ǵʰerH- (“bowels, intestines”). Cognates include Sanskrit हिर (hira), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), and Old English ġearn (English yarn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɛr.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛr.ni.a]

Noun

hernia f (genitive herniae); first declension

1. protruded viscus, hernia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hernia	herniae
genitive	herniae	herniārum
dative	herniae	herniīs
accusative	herniam	herniās
ablative	herniā	herniīs
vocative	hernia	herniae

Descendants

• → Catalan: hèrnia
• → French: hernie
• → English: hernia
• → Italian: ernia
• → Piedmontese: èrnia
• → Portuguese: hérnia
• → Romanian: hernie
• → Sicilian: èrnia
• → Spanish: hernia

References

• “hernia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "hernia", 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)

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

hernia

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾnja/ [ˈeɾ.nja]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾnja
• Syllabification: her‧nia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”).

Noun

hernia f (plural hernias)

1. (pathology) hernia

Derived terms

• hernia de disco
• hernia de hiato
• hernia discal
• hernia hiatal
• hernia inguinal
• hernia umbilical
• herniario
• herniarse
• hernioplastia
• herniotomía

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

hernia

1. only used in se hernia, third-person singular present indicative of herniarse
2. only used in te ... hernia, syntactic variant of hérniate, second-person singular imperative of herniarse

Further reading

• “hernia”, 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

Anagrams

• herían