hepatitis

From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). By surface analysis, hepat- +‎ -itis.

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/

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hepatitis (countable and uncountable, plural hepatitises or hepatitides)

1. Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.
   • 2013, Teri Shors, Understanding Viruses, 2nd edition:

     Hepatitises B and C are the most important chronic viral infections of humans.

• “hepatitis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “hepatitis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “hepatitis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Learned borrowing from Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.pəˈti.tis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [e.paˈti.tis]

hepatitis f (invariable)

1. hepatitis

From hepato- +‎ -itis.

• IPA^(key): /epaˈtitis/ [e.paˈt̪i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: he‧pa‧ti‧tis

hepatitis f (plural hepatitis)

1. (pathology) hepatitis

• “hepatitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014