internist

English

Etymology

From German Internist, corresponding to intern (“internal”) +‎ -ist.

Noun

internist (plural internists)

1. (medicine, chiefly US) A physician who specialises in internal medicine.

Translations

specialist in internal medicine

• Afrikaans: internis (af)
• Arabic: بطنجي
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 内科医师

• Czech: internista m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: internist (nl) m
• Finnish: sisätautilääkäri
• French: interniste (fr)
• Galician: internista m or f
• German: Internist (de) m, Internistin (de) f
• Greek: παθολόγος (el) m or f (pathológos)
• Hebrew: רופא פנימי m (rofé pnimí)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: belgyógyász (hu)
• Interlingua: internista
• Italian: internista (it) m or f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: internista (pl) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: internist (ro) m, internistă (ro) f
• Russian: терапевт (ru) (terapevt), интернист (ru) (internist)
• Spanish: internista m or f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: invärtesläkare c
• Thai: อายุรแพทย์ (aa-yú-rá-pɛ̂ɛt)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed, equivalent to intern +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tərˈnɪst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧nist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

internist m (plural internisten, no diminutive, female equivalent interniste)

1. internist (specialist in internal medicine)

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

German intern

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istabor.

▲

French -isteinflu.

German -ist

German Internistbor.

Romanian internist

Borrowed from German Internist.

Noun

internist m (plural interniști)

1. internist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	internist	internistul	interniști	interniștii
genitive-dative	internist	internistului	interniști	interniștilor
vocative	internistule		interniștilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• intèrnista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

From ȉntērnī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intěrnist/
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧nist

Noun

intèrnist m anim (Cyrillic spelling интѐрнист)

1. internist

Declension

Declension of internist

	singular	plural
nominative	internist	internisti
genitive	internista	internista
dative	internistu	internistima
accusative	internista	interniste
vocative	interniste	internisti
locative	internistu	internistima
instrumental	internistom	internistima

References

• “internist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Etymology

From intern +‎ -ist. First attested in 1921.

Noun

internist c

1. synonym of invärtesläkare (“internist, medic”)

Declension

Declension of internist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	internist	internists
	definite	internisten	internistens
plural	indefinite	internister	internisters
	definite	internisterna	internisternas

References

• “internist”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)