διάρροια

From δῐᾰρρέω (diarrhéō) +‎ -ιᾰ (-ia).

δῐᾰ́ρροιᾰ • (diárrhoia) f (genitive δῐᾰρροίᾱς); first declension

1. (medicine, once fully as κοιλίας διάρροια) flowing through, diarrhoea
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 3.21
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 150
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 85e
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 605a.27
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Gaius Marius 30

• δῐᾰ́ρροιᾰ εἰς οὖρᾰ (diárrhoia eis oûra, “diabetes”)
• δῐᾰρροῐ̈κός (diarrhoïkós, “suffering from diarrhoea”)

• Διάρροια (Diárrhoia)

• Greek: διάρροια (diárroia)
• Latin: diarrhoea

• “διάρροια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διάρροια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)

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From Ancient Greek διάρροια (diárrhoia).

• IPA^(key): /ðiˈaɾia/
• IPA^(key): /ˈðʝaɾia/
• Hyphenation: δι‧ά‧ρροι‧α
• Hyphenation: διά‧ρροι‧α

διάρροια • (diárroia) f (plural διάρροιες)

1. (medicine) diarrhoea (UK), diarrhea (US) (frequent and very fluid or watery bowel movements)

   Έφαγε χαλασμένο ψάρι και την έπιασε διάρροια.

   Éfage chalasméno psári kai tin épiase diárroia.

   She ate a spoiled fish and got diarrhea.

• (diarrhea): ευκοιλιότητα f (efkoiliótita), ευκοίλια f (efkoília), κόψιμο n (kópsimo), τσίρλα f (tsírla) (colloquial)

• (antonym(s) of “diarrhea”): δυσκοιλιότητα f (dyskoiliótita, “constipation”)

• διαρροϊκός (diarroïkós, “diarrheal, diarrheic”) (adjective)
• λογοδιάρροια f (logodiárroia, “uncontrollable chatter”)

• διαρροή f (diarroḯ, “leak, loss”)
• διαρρέω (diarréo, “to leak”)

• διάρροια on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el