tendinitis

English

Alternative forms

• tendonitis, tenonitis

Etymology

From New Latin from tendin-, stem of Medieval Latin tendo, from Late Latin tenon, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “tendon, sinew”). By surface analysis, tendon +‎ -itis and tendo- +‎ -itis but not actually formed in this way; similarly with tendinopathy § Etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛndn̩ˌaɪ.tɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tendinitis (countable and uncountable, plural tendinitises or tendinitides or tendinites)

1. Inflammation of a tendon.

Usage notes

• This spelling (tendinitis) is the one most commonly used in the US (COCA).
• Tendonitis is the more common in the UK (BNC).

Translations

inflammation of a tendon

• Bulgarian: възпаление на сухожилие (vǎzpalenie na suhožilie)
• Catalan: tenonitis f, tendinitis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肌腱炎 (zh) (jījiànyán), 腱炎 (zh) (jiànyán)

• Finnish: jännetulehdus
• German: Sehnenentzündung f
• Hungarian: íngyulladás (hu)
• Italian: tendinite (it) f
• Polish: zapalenie ścięgien n
• Portuguese: tendinite (pt) f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: tendinitis (es) f
• Turkish: tendinit, kiriş iltihabı

Spanish

Etymology

From tendón +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tendiˈnitis/ [t̪ẽn̪.d̪iˈni.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: ten‧di‧ni‧tis

Noun

tendinitis f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) tendinitis

Further reading

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