struma

See also: Struma

English

Etymology

From Latin strūma.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɹuːmə/

Noun

struma (countable and uncountable, plural strumas or strumae)

  1. (pathology) Scrofula.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 186:
      This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.
  2. (pathology) A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre.

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch struma, from Latin strūma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈstruma]
  • Hyphenation: stru‧ma

Noun

struma (plural struma-struma)

  1. (pathology) goiter, goitre: an enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland
    Synonym: gondok

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstru.ma/
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Hyphenation: strù‧ma

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

  1. struma

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From struō.

Pronunciation

Noun

strūma f (genitive strūmae); first declension

  1. a scrofulous tumor, struma

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative strūma strūmae
genitive strūmae strūmārum
dative strūmae strūmīs
accusative strūmam strūmās
ablative strūmā strūmīs
vocative strūma strūmae

Descendants

  • Czech: struma
  • Dutch: struma
  • English: struma
  • Estonian: struuma (learned)
  • French: strume (learned)
    • Romanian: strumă (learned)
  • German: Struma
  • Ido: strumo (learned)
  • Italian: struma
  • Norwegian: struma
  • Serbo-Croatian: strȕma / стру̏ма
  • Swedish: struma
  • Translingual: Strumigenys
  • >? Venetan: struma (inherited)

References

  • struma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • struma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "struma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • struma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, indefinite plural strumaer, definite plural strumaene)

  1. (pathology) a goitre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, uncountable)

  1. (pathology) a goitre

Venetan

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

  1. effort, toil