rheumatism

English

Etymology

First attested 1601, from Latin rheumatismus (“rheum”), from Ancient Greek ῥευματισμός (rheumatismós, “humour, discharge, rheum”) from ῥευματίζομαι (rheumatízomai, “I suffer from a rheum”) from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz.əm/
• (US, dialectal, obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz/

Noun

rheumatism (countable and uncountable, plural rheumatisms)

1. (pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
   • 1874, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Alive:

     The old man had become a confirmed invalid, confined by chronic rheumatism to his chair.

2. (pathology) atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

Derived terms

• desert rheumatism
• rheumatismal
• rheumatismoid
• rheumatism root
• rheumatism weed

 

Related terms

• rheum
• rheumatic
• rheumaticky
• rheumatoid
• rheumatologist
• rheumatology
• rheumy

 

Translations

any painful disorder of muscles, tendons, joints, bones and nerves

• Arabic: رَثْيَة f (raṯya)
• Armenian: ռևմատիզմ (hy) (ṙewmatizm)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ревматизъм m (revmatizǎm)
• Catalan: reumatisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風濕病／风湿病 (zh) (fēngshībìng), 風濕／风湿 (fēngshī)

• Czech: revmatismus (cs) m
• Esperanto: reŭmatismo (eo)
• Faroese: gikt f
• Finnish: reumatismi (fi), reuma (fi)
• French: rhumatisme (fr) m
• Galician: reumatismo (gl) m, reuma f
• German: Rheuma (de) n, Rheumatismus (de) m
• Hebrew: שיגרון
• Hungarian: reuma (hu), (folksy) csúz (hu)
• Japanese: リウマチ (ja) (riumachi), リューマチ (ja) (ryūmachi)
• Kazakh: ревматизм (revmatizm), құздама (qūzdama)
• Khmer: ឈឺសន្លាក់ឆ្អឹង (chɨɨ sɑnlak chʼəng)
• Korean: 류머티즘 (ko) (ryumeotijeum)
• Lezgi: кпул (kpul)
• Maori: kaikoiwi, rūmātiki
• Marathi: संधिवात (sandhivāt)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: agizii
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: یل (yel)
• Plautdietsch: Rietinj f
• Polish: reumatyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: reumatismo (pt) m
• Russian: ревмати́зм (ru) m (revmatízm)
• Scottish Gaelic: lòinidh m or f, siataig f
• Sicilian: ramatichi m pl
• Slovak: reumatizmus (sk) m
• Spanish: reumatismo (es) m
• Tagalog: rayuma
• Tausug: ulapid
• Thai: รูมาติซึม
• Turkish: romatizma (tr)
• Vietnamese: (bệnh) phong thấp (vi), (bệnh) tê thấp (vi), (bệnh) thấp khớp (vi)

rheumatoid arthritis — see also rheumatoid arthritis

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: nivelreuma (fi)
• Galician: reuma f
• Plautdietsch: Rietinj f
• Polish: reumatyzm (pl) m
• Russian: ревмати́зм (ru) m (revmatízm)
• Scottish Gaelic: lòinidh m or f, siataig f
• Spanish: artritis reumatoide f

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