hernia

See also: hérnia and hèrnia

English

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
• herniotomy
• hiatus hernia
• Morgagni 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
• 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: guallara, 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
• 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)
• Ukrainian: гри́жа f (hrýža)
• Uzbek: dabba (uz), churra (uz)
• Vietnamese: thoát vị (vi)
• Welsh: torllengig m, torgest f

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 *ǵʰer- (“bowels, intestines”). Cognates include Sanskrit हिर (hira), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), and Old English ġearn (English yarn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈher.ni.a/, [ˈhɛrniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ni.a/, [ˈɛrniä]

Noun

hernia f (genitive herniae); first declension

1. protruded viscus, hernia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Spanish

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• herían