dysenteria

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English dysentery), ultimately from Latin dysenteria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdysenteriɑ/,
  • Rhymes: -eriɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): dy‧sen‧te‧ria

Noun

dysenteria

  1. (pathology) dysentery

Declension

Inflection of dysenteria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative dysenteria dysenteriat
genitive dysenterian dysenterioiden
dysenterioitten
partitive dysenteriaa dysenterioita
illative dysenteriaan dysenterioihin
singular plural
nominative dysenteria dysenteriat
accusative nom. dysenteria dysenteriat
gen. dysenterian
genitive dysenterian dysenterioiden
dysenterioitten
dysenteriain rare
partitive dysenteriaa dysenterioita
inessive dysenteriassa dysenterioissa
elative dysenteriasta dysenterioista
illative dysenteriaan dysenterioihin
adessive dysenterialla dysenterioilla
ablative dysenterialta dysenterioilta
allative dysenterialle dysenterioille
essive dysenteriana dysenterioina
translative dysenteriaksi dysenterioiksi
abessive dysenteriatta dysenterioitta
instructive dysenterioin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of dysenteria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, bad) + ἔντερα (éntera, bowels).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    dysenteria f (genitive dysenteriae); first declension

    1. dysentery

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative dysenteria dysenteriae
    genitive dysenteriae dysenteriārum
    dative dysenteriae dysenteriīs
    accusative dysenteriam dysenteriās
    ablative dysenteriā dysenteriīs
    vocative dysenteria dysenteriae

    Descendants

    • Old Galician-Portuguese: desinteria
      • Galician: disentería
      • Portuguese: disenteria

    References

    • dysenteria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • dysenteria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Portuguese

    Noun

    dysenteria f (plural dysenterias)

    1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of disenteria.