meningitis

See also: Meningitis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῆνῐγξ (mêninx) + -itis, equivalent to meninge +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛnɪnˈdʒaɪtɪs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

meningitis (countable and uncountable, plural meningitides)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.

Coordinate terms

• encephalitis

Derived terms

• antimeningitic
• antimeningitis
• aseptic meningitis
• bacterial meningitis
• cephalomeningitis
• cerebromeningitis
• cerebrospinal meningitis
• choriomeningitis
• encephalomeningitis
• meningism
• meningitic
• meningitis W
• Mollaret's meningitis
• myelomeningitis
• pachymeningitis
• postmeningitis
• pseudomeningitis
• tuberculous meningitis

 

Translations

inflammation of the meninges

• Armenian: մենինգիտ (hy) (meningit)
• Catalan: meningitis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腦膜炎／脑膜炎 (zh) (nǎomóyán)

• Czech: meningitida (cs) f, zánět mozkových blan m
• Danish: hjernehindebetændelse c, meningitis (da) c
• Dutch: hersenvliesontsteking (nl) f, meningitis (nl) f, nekkramp (nl) (colloquial)
• Esperanto: meningito
• Finnish: aivokalvontulehdus (fi), meningiitti (fi)
• French: méningite (fr) f
• Galician: meninxite (gl) f
• German: Hirnhautentzündung (de) f
• Greek: μηνιγγίτιδα (el) f (miningítida)
• Hungarian: agyhártyagyulladás (hu)
• Icelandic: heilahimnubólga (is) f, mengisbólga (is) f
• Italian: meningite (it) f
• Japanese: 髄膜炎 (ja) (ずいまくえん, zuimakuen)
• Kazakh: миқұрт (miqūrt)
• Korean: 뇌수막염(腦髓膜炎) (noesumagyeom)
• Latvian: meningīts m
• Macedonian: менингитис m (meningitis)
• Malayalam: മെനിഞ്ചൈറ്റിസ് (meniñcaiṟṟisŭ)
• Maori: kiriuhi uakakā, mate kiriuhi uakakā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjernehinnebetennelse m, meningitt m

  Nynorsk: hjernehinnebetennelse m, meningitt m

• Persian: مننژیت (fa) (menanžit)
• Polish: zapalenie opon mózgowych n
• Portuguese: meningite (pt) f
• Romanian: meningită (ro) f
• Russian: менинги́т (ru) m (meningít)
• Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-eanchainne m
• Spanish: meningitis (es) f
• Swedish: hjärnhinneinflammation (sv) c, meningit (sv) c
• Tagalog: meninghitis
• Thai: เยื่อหุ้มสมองอักเสบ (yʉ̂ʉa-hûm-sà-mɔ̌ɔng-àk-sèep)
• Turkish: menenjit (tr)
• Vietnamese: viêm màng não (炎𦛿腦)
• Volapük: menenaflamat
• Yoruba: yínrùnyínrùn, lọ́rùnlọ́rùn

Further reading

• meningitis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From meninge +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.niɲˈʒi.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [me.niɲˈd͡ʒi.tis]

Noun

meningitis f (invariable)

1. (pathology) meningitis

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῆνῐγξ (mêninx) + -ītis.

Noun

mēningītis f (genitive mēningītidis); third declension

1. (New Latin, pathology) meningitis

Declension

Plural forms are rare. Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mēningītis	mēningītidēs
Genitive	mēningītidis	mēningītidum
Dative	mēningītidī	mēningītidibus
Accusative	mēningītidem	mēningītidēs
Ablative	mēningītide	mēningītidibus
Vocative	mēningītis	mēningītidēs

Spanish

Etymology

From meninge +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meninˈxitis/ [me.nĩŋˈxi.t̪is]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: me‧nin‧gi‧tis

Noun

meningitis f (plural meningitis)

1. meningitis

Further reading

• “meningitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014