diarrhoea

See also: diarrhœa

English

Noun

diarrhoea (usually uncountable, plural diarrhoeas)

British standard spelling of diarrhea.

Derived terms

References

“diarrhoea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διάρροια (diárrhoia).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [di.arˈrʰoe̯.a]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪i.arˈrɛː.a]

Noun

diarrhoea f (genitive diarrhoeae); first declension

(Late Latin) diarrhoea

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	diarrhoea	diarrhoeae
genitive	diarrhoeae	diarrhoeārum
dative	diarrhoeae	diarrhoeīs
accusative	diarrhoeam	diarrhoeās
ablative	diarrhoeā	diarrhoeīs
vocative	diarrhoea	diarrhoeae

Related terms

diarrhoicus

Descendants

→ Catalan: diarrea
→ Galician: diarrea
→ Italian: diarrea
→ Middle French: diarrie
- English: diarrhoea, diarrhoea (British), diarrhœa (archaic)
  - Australian Kriol: daiyariya
  - → Hindi: डायरिया (ḍāyriyā)
  - → Hiri Motu: dairia
  - Tok Pisin: dairia
- French: diarrhée, diarrhœe (obsolete)
  - → Dutch: diarree
    - → Indonesian: diare
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: diaré
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: diaré
  - → Romanian: diaree
  - → Swedish: diarré
→ Occitan: diarrèia
→ Piedmontese: diareia, diarena
→ Portuguese: diarreia
→ Romansch: diarrea
→ Spanish: diarrea

References

“dĭarrhoea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
dĭarrhœa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 518/3.