gastroenteritis

English

Etymology

From gastro- +‎ enteritis.

Noun

gastroenteritis (countable and uncountable, plural gastroenterites or gastroenteritides)

1. (medicine) Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the stomach and intestine; often caused by an infection.

Synonyms

• gastro (Britain, Australia, colloquial)

Translations

inflammation

• Catalan: gastroenteritis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胃腸炎 / 胃肠炎 (zh) (wèichángyán)

• Czech: gastroenteritida (cs)
• Dutch: buikgriep (nl) f
• Esperanto: gastroenterito
• Finnish: suolistotulehdus
• French: gastro-entérite (fr) f
• German: (medical) Gastroenteritis f; (common) Margen-Darm-Grippe f, Brechdurchfall (de) m
• Greek: γαστρεντερίτιδα (el) f (gastrenterítida)
• Icelandic: maga- og garnabólga f, maga- og garnakvef n
• Italian: gastroenterite (it) f
• Japanese: 胃腸炎 (ja) (いちょうえん, ichōen)
• Kazakh: асқазан-аш ішек қабынуы (asqazan-aş ışek qabynuy)
• Korean: 장염 (jang'yeom)
• Malay: radang perut dan usus, gastroenteritis
• Polish: grypa żołądkowa f
• Portuguese: gastroenterite (pt) f
• Russian: гастроэнтери́т (ru) m (gastroentɛrít)
• Spanish: gastroenteritis f
• Swedish: gastroenterit (sv) c
• Ukrainian: гастроентери́т m (hastroenterýt)

Anagrams

• enterogastritis

Catalan

Etymology

From gastro- +‎ enteritis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˌɡas.tɾu.ən.təˈɾi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˌɡas.tɾo.ən.təˈɾi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˌɡas.tɾo.en.teˈɾi.tis]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Hyphenation: gas‧tro‧en‧te‧ri‧tis

Noun

gastroenteritis f (invariable)

1. (pathology) gastroenteritis

Further reading

• “gastroenteritis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Spanish

Etymology

From gastro- +‎ enteritis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡastɾoenteˈɾitis/ [ɡas.t̪ɾo.ẽn̪.t̪eˈɾi.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: gas‧tro‧en‧te‧ri‧tis

Noun

gastroenteritis f (plural gastroenteritis)

1. (pathology) gastroenteritis

Further reading

• “gastroenteritis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10