arthritis

From Latin arthrītis, from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτις (arthrîtis, “joint-disease, gout”), from ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”). By surface analysis, arthr- +‎ -itis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈθɹ(a)ɪtɪs/, [ɑɹˈθɹ(a)ɪɾɪs]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɐːˈθɹ(ɑ)ɪtɪs/, /aːˈθɹ(ɑ)ɪtɪs/

arthritis (countable and uncountable, plural arthritides or arthritises)

2. Inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders: any of several disease entities.

   Hyponyms: osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease; rheumatoid arthritis; septic arthritis

   • 1878, L[éon Athanese] Gosselin, “I. Hyperostosis of Right Femur. II. Necrosis of Left Tibia.”, in Lewis A. Stimson, transl., Clinical Lectures on Surgery, Delivered at the Hospital of La Charité, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C. Lea, part I (Surgical Diseases of Youth), page 42:

     The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;

   • 2012, Patrick White, The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories, →ISBN:

     She identified the dry grasp and the finger joints (both the Simpsons were dry-handed, and in the early stages of arthritis, so Dr Simpson had diagnosed).

• arthralgia
• arthrosis
• rheumatism
• gout

• “arthritis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “arthritis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “arthritis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

arthritis (uncountable)

1. arthritis (inflammation of a joint)

• arthritic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρθρῖτῐς (arthrîtĭs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [arˈtʰriː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈt̪riː.t̪is]
• Hyphenation: ar‧thrī‧tis

arthrītis f (genitive arthrītidis); third declension

1. arthritis (inflammation of a joint)

Third-declension noun.

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