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English
Etymology
From Latin tinnītus (“a jingling, ringing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɪn.ɪ.təs/, /ˈtɪn.ə.təs/, /tɪˈnaɪ.təs/
- Rhymes: -aɪtəs
Noun
tinnitus (countable and uncountable, plural tinnituses)
- (otolaryngology, pathology) The perception of noise, such as a ringing or beating sound, which has no external source.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
perception of nonexistent noise
- Arabic: طَنِين m (ṭanīn)
- Armenian: տինիտուս (tinitus), աղմուկ ականջներում (aġmuk akanǰnerum)
- Bashkir: баш шаулау (baş şawlaw)
- Bulgarian: тинитус m (tinitus), пищене в ушите (pištene v ušite)
- Catalan: tinnitus (ca) m, acufen m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 耳鳴 / 耳鸣 (ji5 ming4)
- Mandarin: 耳鳴 / 耳鸣 (zh) (ěrmíng)
- Czech: tinnitus m, tinitus m
- Danish: tinnitus c, øresus c
- Dutch: tinnitus (nl) m, oorsuizen (nl) n
- Esperanto: tinito
- Finnish: tinnitus (fi)
- French: acouphène (fr) m
- Galician: zunido (gl) m, acúfeno m
- German: Tinnitus (de) m, Ohrensausen (de) n
- Greek: εμβοές (el) f pl (emvoés)
- Hebrew: טִינִיטוּס (he) f (tinitus)
- Hindi: कान बजना m (kān bajnā), कर्णक्ष्वेण (karṇakṣveṇ)
- Hungarian: fülzúgás (hu)
- Indonesian: tinitus
- Irish: tinniteas m
- Italian: acufene (it) m
- Japanese: 耳鳴り (ja) (みみなり, miminari)
- Korean: 이명 (imyeong), 귀울림 (gwiullim)
- Kyrgyz: кулак чуулдоо (kulak cuuldoo)
- Luxembourgish: Tinnitus m
- Macedonian: зуење во ушите n (zuenje vo ušite)
- Malagasy: figiririoka (mg)
- Malay: tinitus
- Maori: mate tī taringa, taringa tītī
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tinnitus m, øresus m or n
- Nynorsk: tinnitus m, øyresus m or n
- Odia: କାନନାଦ (kānanāda)
- Persian: وزوز گوش (vez-vez-e guš)
- Polish: szumy uszne m
- Portuguese: zumbido (pt) m, tinido m, tinnitus m, acufeno m
- Romanian: tinitus n
- Russian: звон в уша́х m (zvon v ušáx), шум в уша́х m (šum v ušáx), ти́ннитус (ru) m (tínnitus)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ти̏нитус m
- Roman: tȉnitus (sh) m
- Slovak: tinitus m, hučanie v ušiach n pl, ušný šelest m
- Slovene: tinitus m, šumenje v ušesu n pl
- Spanish: tinnitus (es) m, acúfeno (es) m
- Swedish: tinnitus (sv) c, öronsusning c
- Tamil: காதிரைச்சல் (ta) (kātiraiccal)
- Thai: เสียงในหู (sĭang nai hŏo)
- Turkish: kulak çınlaması
- Ukrainian: тинітус m (tynitus)
- Welsh: tinitws m
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
tinnitus m inan
- tinnitus
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Finnish
Etymology
Derived from Latin tinnītus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tinnitus
- tinnitus
Declension
Further reading
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From tinniō (“ring, jingle, clink”) + -tus (abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
tinnītus m (genitive tinnītūs); fourth declension
- A ringing, jingling, tinkling.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “tinnitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tinnitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tinnitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Noun
tinnitus m (uncountable)
- (medicine) tinnitus (perception of a ringing noise)
- Synonyms: zumbido, tinido
Spanish
Noun
tinnitus m (plural tinnitus)
- tinnitus
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin tinnītus.
Noun
tinnitus c
- tinnitus
References