sinusitis

See also: Sinusitis

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sinus

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

New Latin -itisder.

English -itis

English sinusitis

From sinus + -itis.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sinusitis (usually uncountable, plural sinusitises or sinusitides)

1. (pathology) An inflammation of one or more paranasal sinuses.

Derived terms

• aerosinusitis
• barosinusitis
• nasosinusitis
• pansinusitis
• polysinusitis
• rhinosinusitis
• sinusitic
• sinusitis-infertility syndrome

Translations

inflammation

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: sinusitis f
• Belarusian: сінусіт m (sinusit)
• Bulgarian: синузит m (sinuzit)
• Burmese: ထိပ်ကပ်နာ (my) (htipkapna)
• Catalan: sinusitis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼻竇炎 / 鼻窦炎 (zh) (bídòuyán)

• Czech: zánět dutin m, sinusitida (cs) f
• Dutch: bijholteontsteking (nl) f, sinusitis (nl) f
• Esperanto: sinusito
• Finnish: sinuiitti (fi), poskiontelontulehdus
• French: sinusite (fr) m
• Galician: sinusite (gl) f
• German: Sinusitis (de) f
• Greek: ιγμορίτιδα (el) f (igmorítida)
• Hungarian: arcüreggyulladás (hu)
• Italian: sinusite (it) f
• Japanese: 副鼻腔炎 (ja) (ふくびこうえん, fukubikō-en)
• Kazakh: синусит (sıynuwsıyt)
• Korean: 부비동염 (bubidong'yeom), 부비강염 (bubigang'yeom)
• Lithuanian: haimoritas m
• Malay: resdung (ms)
• Māori: (mate) pakohu kakā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bihulebetennelse m, biholebetennelse

  Nynorsk: bihólebetennelse m, biholebetennelse m

• Persian: کاوک‌آماس, سینوزیت (fa) (sinuzit)
• Polish: zapalenie zatok n
• Portuguese: sinusite (pt) f
• Romanian: sinuzită (ro)
• Russian: синуси́т (ru) m (sinusít), гаймори́т (ru) m (gajmorít)
• Spanish: sinusitis (es) m
• Swedish: bihåleinflammation (sv) c, sinusit (sv) c, sinuit c
• Tamil: புரையழற்சி (puraiyaḻaṟci)
• Thai: โพรงอากาศอักเสบ
• Turkish: sinüzit (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: viêm xoang (vi) (炎腔)

Dutch

Etymology

Likely borrowed. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsi.nʏˈsi.tɪs/

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• Rhymes: -itɪs

Noun

sinusitis f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (pathology) synonym of bijholteontsteking (“sinusitis”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sinuˈsitis/ [si.nuˈsi.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: si‧nu‧si‧tis

Noun

sinusitis f (plural sinusitis)

1. (pathology) sinusitis

Further reading

• “sinusitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026