trachoma

See also: trachomą and Trachoma

English

Etymology

From New Latin trachōma, from Ancient Greek τράχωμα (trákhōma, “roughness”), from τρᾱχύς (trākhús, “rough”) + -ωμα (-ōma).

Noun

trachoma (plural trachomas or trachomata)

1. (medicine) An infectious disease of the eyelid caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.

Synonyms

• (medicine): Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis

Hypernyms

• (medicine): chlamydiosis, keratoconjunctivitis

Derived terms

• trachomatous (adjective)

Translations

infectious disease

• Armenian: տրախոմա (hy) (traxoma)
• Belarusian: трахома f (traxóma)
• Catalan: tracoma m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 目沙 (ba̍k-soa)

  Mandarin: 沙眼 (zh) (shāyǎn), 砂眼 (zh) (shāyǎn)

• Esperanto: traĥomo, trakomo
• French: trachome (fr) m
• German: Trachom n
• Indonesian: trakoma (id)
• Italian: tracoma (it) m
• Japanese: トラコーマ (ja) (torakōma)
• Kazakh: басыр (basyr), трахома (traxoma)
• Kyrgyz: трахома (ky) (trahoma)
• Malay: trakoma
• Polish: jaglica (pl) f, trachoma (pl) f
• Romanian: trahom (ro) n
• Russian: трахома (ru) f (traxoma)
• Spanish: tracoma (es) m
• Ukrainian: трахома f (traxoma)
• Vietnamese: bệnh mắt hột

Anagrams

• achromat

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin trachōma, from Ancient Greek τράχωμα (trákhōma), from τρᾱχύς (trākhús) + -ωμα (-ōma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /traˈxɔ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɔma
• Syllabification: tra‧cho‧ma

Noun

trachoma f

1. (ophthalmology) trachoma

   Synonym: jaglica

Declension

Declension of trachoma

	singular
nominative	trachoma
genitive	trachomy
dative	trachomie
accusative	trachomę
instrumental	trachomą
locative	trachomie
vocative	trachomo

Further reading

• trachoma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trachoma in Polish dictionaries at PWN