-itis

Etymology
From, from. This is the feminine form of adjectival suffix. The English suffix derives from the feminine form due to its use with the feminine noun, particularly with (one of the earliest English borrowings from which the suffix was extracted and abstracted). Humorous sense by generalization.

Suffix
(usually uncountable, plural sometimes -itides or rarely -itises)


 * 1)  Suffix denoting diseases characterized by inflammation, itself often caused by an infection.
 * 2)  Used to form the names of various fictitious afflictions or diseases.
 * 3) * What to Do About Senioritis: Make Your Senior Year Count, College Board. Accessed April 4, 2008.

Usage notes
While most of the derived terms theoretically have plurals in -itides (from the Ancient Greek, plural of ), -itises (the regularized English plural), or both, these forms are rarely used, as the derived terms are mass nouns, so their plurals are called for only when referring to types. For example, hepatitides or hepatitises as "types of hepatitis" have some currency in the medical literature, but most other such plurals do not. There is a tendency in formal writing to prefer the suffix (when a plural is invoked at all); a typical example is that for the plural of  referring to various types of arthritis, only  is standard.

Descendants

 * itis

Translations

 * Ancient Greek: -ιτις
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: -itida
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: -iitti
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: -itis
 * Irish: -íteas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: -炎
 * Korean:
 * Latin: -itis
 * Malay: radang, -itis
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: -ită
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From, from.

Suffix

 * 1) -itis

Etymology
Borrowed from, , , /, , all ultimately from , from.

Suffix

 * 1) ; -itis

Etymology 1
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Suffix

 * 1)   suffix denoting diseases characterized by inflammation, itself often caused by an infection

Etymology 2
See.

Etymology
, from.

Suffix

 * 1)   denotes diseases characterized by inflammation, itself often caused by an infection
 * 2)   forms the names of various fictitious afflictions or diseases