steatitis

From steato- +‎ -itis.

steatitis (uncountable)

1. Inflammation of a fatty tissue.

• steatosis

• hepatosteatitis, steatohepatitis

• stistaite

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στεατῖτις (steatîtis), from στέαρ (stéar, “suet”).

steatītis f (genitive steatītidis); third declension

1. steatite
2. An unknown kind of gem

Third-declension noun.

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