diabetes

From Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbitiz/, [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾiz], /ˌdaɪəˈbitɪs/, [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾɪs]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑɪəˈbiːtiːz/

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• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /dajaˈbitis/

diabetes (uncountable)

2. (pathology) Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020 September 7, Ian Sample, The Guardian:

     In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand.

3. (slang, humorous) Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
   • 2017 August 6, “The craziest things you have to eat in New York City”, in Silver Stories‎^[1]:

     This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap.

4. Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. [from 15th c.]
   • 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, The Physical Directory:

     A Sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continuall pissing.

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     The lady laboured under a Diabetes, in consequence of having used the waters injudiciously for another complaint; and, that she might not be an impediment to the carriage, by ordering it to halt,as often as she should have occasion to disembogue, she had provided herself with a leathern contrivance […] .

• (group of metabolic diseases): diabetes mellitus, DM, diabeetus (humorous)

• (group of metabolic diseases): IDDM, juvenile diabetes, NIDDM

• diabetic

• Tok Pisin: daiabitis

• beadiest

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪjabɛtɛs]

diabetes m inan

1. diabetes mellitus

   Synonyms: cukrovka, (dated) úplavice cukrová

• “diabetes”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “diabetes”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “diabetes”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

diabetes c (singular definite diabetesen, not used in plural form)

1. diabetes

   Synonym: sukkersyge

• “diabetes” in Den Danske Ordbog

From New Latin diabetes mellitus, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”). This refers to the excessive amounts of urine produced by sufferers. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdi.aːˈbeː.təs/

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧be‧tes
• Rhymes: -eːtəs

diabetes m (uncountable)

1. diabetes

• diabeet
• diabetica
• diabeticus
• diabetisch

• → Indonesian: diabetes

Learned borrowing from Latin diabētēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑbe(ː)t(ː)es/, [ˈdiɑ̝ˌbe̞(ː)t̪(ː)e̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification^(key): di‧a‧be‧tes
• Hyphenation^(key): dia‧be‧tes

diabetes

1. diabetes

   Synonym: sokeritauti

   Hyponyms: nuoruusiän diabetes (type I), aikuisdiabetes (type II)

• “diabetes”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• diabet (colloquial, uncommon)

Borrowed from Dutch diabetes, from Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /diaˈbetəs/ [di.aˈbe.t̪əs]
• Rhymes: -etəs
• Syllabification: di‧a‧be‧tes

diabetês (uncountable)

1. (medicine, endocrinology) diabetes
   1. a general term referring to any of various disorders characterized by excessive urination (polyuria)
   3. (pathology) diabetes mellitus, a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia

      Synonyms: diabetes melitus, penyakit kencing manis, penyakit gula

• diabetes on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id
• “diabetes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowing from Ancient Greek δῐᾰβήτης (dĭăbḗtēs, “siphon; diabetes”), from δῐᾰβαίνω (dĭăbaínō, “to step across, pass over”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [di.aˈbeː.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪i.aˈbɛː.t̪es]

diabētēs m (genitive diabētae); first declension

1. a siphon

   Synonym: sīphō

   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.10:

     Naturali enim spiritu omne alimentum virentis, quasi quaedam anima, per medullam trunci veluti per siphonem quem diabeten vocant mechanici, trahitur in summum: […]

     For by natural respiration all the nourishment of a green plant is drawn, as a sort of vital breath, into the highest point, passing through the pith of the stem as though through a siphon, which mechanics call diabetes; […]

2. (New Latin, pathology) diabetes

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

• → English: diabetes

• “diabetes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

• IPA^(key): /di.a.be.tes/, [dɪ.ɑ.ˈbeː.teːs]

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

• sukkersyke

“diabetes” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪɑˈbeːtes/

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

• sukkersjuke

“diabetes” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• diabete

• Hyphenation: di‧a‧be‧tes

diabetes f or m (invariable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

• The gender of this Portuguese noun varies from speaker to speaker. Some use it as a masculine noun and others as a feminine noun.

diabetes f pl or m pl

1. plural of diabete

• “diabetes”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• diábetes (nonstandard)

• IPA^(key): /djaˈbetes/ [d̪jaˈβ̞e.t̪es]

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• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification: dia‧be‧tes

diabetes f (plural diabetes)

1. diabetes

• “diabetes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

diabetes c

1. diabetes (diabetes mellitus)

   Synonym: (less common) sockersjuka

• diabetiker (“a diabetic”)
• diabetisk (“diabetic”)

• insulin

• diabetes in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• diabetes in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• diabetes in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH