hernia

See also: hérnia

Contents

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)niə

Noun

hernia (plural hernias or herniae or 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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hernial

• herniated

• herniotomy

Translations

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

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: فَتْق‎ (ar) m (fatq)
• Armenian: աղեթափություն (hy) (ałetʿapʿutʿyun)
• Catalan: hèrnia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疝氣 (zh), 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
• Esperanto: hernia (eo)
• Finnish: tyrä (fi)
• French: hernie (fr) f
• Galician: hernia f
• Georgian: თიაქარი (ka) (tiakari)
• German: Bruch (de) m, Hernie (de) f
• Greek: κήλη (el) f (kíli)

  Ancient Greek: κήλη f (kḗlē)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: sérv (hu)
• Irish: maidhm sheicne f, heirne f
• Italian: ernia (it) f
• Japanese: ヘルニア (herunia), 脱腸 (datchō)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can

• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whaturama
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: hadzííyá
• Neapolitan: guallara, guallecchia, ntoscia, pallone, paposcia, ruttura
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: rompeuse f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: brokk
• 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: vàddara (scn) f, guàddara (scn) f, guàddira (scn) f, vàddira (scn) f
• Spanish: hernia (es) f
• Swedish: bråck (sv) n
• Tagalog: luslos (tl)
• Thai: ไส้เลื่อน (sâi-lʉ̂ʉan)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: fıtık (tr)
• Vietnamese: thoát vị (vi)
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• Westrobothnian: bråk n, brak n, hęlslaust f, hellsläust f

Anagrams

• Neriah, Rehani, hairen, hearin'

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-. Cognates include Sanskrit हिर (hira), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), and Old English ġearn (English yarn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈher.ni.a/, [ˈhɛr.ni.a]

Noun

hernia f (genitive herniae); first declension

1. protruded viscus

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hernia	herniae
Genitive	herniae	herniārum
Dative	herniae	herniīs
Accusative	herniam	herniās
Ablative	herniā	herniīs
Vocative	hernia	herniae

Descendants

• → English: hernia
• French: hernie
• Italian: ernia
• Portuguese: hérnia
• Romanian: hernie
• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈe̞ɾ.nja̠]
• See also: Hernán

Noun

hernia f (plural hernias)

1. (pathology) hernia

Derived terms

Term list

• hernia discal
• hernia hiatal

• hernia inguinal
• hernial

• herniarse
• hernia umbilical

• hernioplastia
• herniotomía

Anagrams

• herían