tonsillitis

See also: Tonsillitis

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English tonsil

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 tonsillitis

From tonsil + -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɒnsəˈlaɪtɪs/

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Noun

tonsillitis (usually uncountable, plural tonsillitides or tonsillites or tonsillitises)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the tonsils.

Derived terms

• adenotonsillitis
• pharyngotonsillitis
• tonsillitic

Related terms

• quinsy

Translations

inflammation of the tonsils

• Albanian: angjinë (sq) f
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܘܼܠܗܵܒ݂ ܢܲܚܢܚܵܬܹ̈ܐ m (šulhāw naḳnḳātē)

• Armenian: նշիկաբորբ (nšikaborb), անգինա (hy) (angina)
• Bulgarian: анги́на (bg) f (angína)
• Catalan: tonsilito
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扁桃體炎 / 扁桃体炎 (zh) (biǎntáotǐyán)

• Czech: angína (cs) f
• Dutch: tonsillitis (nl)
• Esperanto: tonsilito
• Finnish: nielurisatulehdus (fi), angiina (fi)
• French: amygdalite (fr) f, angine (fr) f
• German: Mandelentzündung (de) f, Tonsillitis (de) f (scientific)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: κυνάγχη f (kunánkhē)

• Hungarian: mandulagyulladás (hu)
• Italian: tonsillite (it) f
• Japanese: 扁桃炎 (ja) (へんとうえん, hentōen), 扁桃腺炎 (ja) (へんとうせんえん, hentōsen'en)
• Latin: angina f, tōlēs m pl
• Macedonian: анги́на f (angína), грлобол m (grlobol)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бах(уу) (bax(uu)), бүйлсэн булчирхайн үрэвсэл (büilsen bulčirxain ürevsel)

• Norwegian: mandelbetennelse m
• Polish: angina (pl) f
• Portuguese: amigdalite f
• Romanian: amigdalită (ro) f
• Russian: тонзилли́т (ru) m (tonzillít), анги́на (ru) f (angína)
• Serbo-Croatian: angina (sh) f
• Spanish: amigdalitis (es) f
• Swahili: mafindofindo
• Swedish: halsfluss (sv) c
• Tagalog: maganggutil
• Turkish: anjin (tr), boğak (tr) (colloquial), hunnak (tr) (obsolete), tonsilit (tr)
• Ukrainian: тонзиліт m (tonzylit), ангіна (uk) f (anhina)
• Vietnamese: viêm amidan, viêm hạch hạnh nhân