diftéria

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See also: difteria

Hungarian

Etymology

From scientific Latin diphteritis.[1] With -éria ending.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: dif‧té‧ria
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

diftéria (plural diftériák)

  1. (pathology) diphtheria (a highly infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract characterised by a sore throat, fever, and difficulty breathing)
    Synonym: torokgyík

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative diftéria diftériák
accusative diftériát diftériákat
dative diftériának diftériáknak
instrumental diftériával diftériákkal
causal-final diftériáért diftériákért
translative diftériává diftériákká
terminative diftériáig diftériákig
essive-formal diftériaként diftériákként
essive-modal — —
inessive diftériában diftériákban
superessive diftérián diftériákon
adessive diftériánál diftériáknál
illative diftériába diftériákba
sublative diftériára diftériákra
allative diftériához diftériákhoz
elative diftériából diftériákból
delative diftériáról diftériákról
ablative diftériától diftériáktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		diftériáé diftériáké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		diftériáéi diftériákéi
Possessive forms of diftéria
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. diftériám diftériáim
2nd person sing. diftériád diftériáid
3rd person sing. diftériája diftériái
1st person plural diftériánk diftériáink
2nd person plural diftériátok diftériáitok
3rd person plural diftériájuk diftériáik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • diftéria in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • diftéria in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
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