goitre

goitre

English

Alternative forms

• goiter

Etymology

Borrowed from French, either from Old French goitron (“throat, neck, goitre”), itself from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem (“throat, goitre-like protrusions”), from Latin guttur, or a back-formation from French goitreux (“goitered”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔɪ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔɪ.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

goitre (countable and uncountable, plural goitres)

1. (pathology, UK) An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.

Derived terms

• German goitre
• goitred
• goitrous

 

Translations

enlargement of the neck

Arabic: تضخم الغدة الدرقية‎ Armenian: խպիպ (hy) (xpip) Bikol Central: bugon Bulgarian: гуша (bg) f (guša) Burmese: လည်ပင်းကြီးရောဂါ (my) (lanypang:kri:rau:ga) Chinese: Mandarin: 甲狀腺腫／甲状腺肿 (zh) (jiǎzhuàngxiànzhǒng) Czech: vole (cs) n, struma (cs) f Dutch: krop (nl), struma (nl) Estonian: hõõtsik, struuma Finnish: struuma (fi) French: goitre (fr) m German: Kropf (de) m, (medicine) Struma f, (medical, obsolete) Satthals m Greek: βρογχοκήλη (el) f (vronchokíli) Hungarian: golyva (hu), strúma, pajzsmirigy-megnagyobbodás Indonesian: gondok (id) Interlingua: struma Irish: ainglis f Italian: gozzo (it) m Javanese: gondhok Khmer: ពកក (km) (pôkâk) Latvian: kākslis m Luxembourgish: Krapp m Macedonian: гу́ша f (gúša) Magahi: 𑂐𑂵𑂐𑂰 (gheghā) Maithili: घेघ (ghēgh) Manx: anglysh f Maori: tenga Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: struma m Nynorsk: struma m Persian: جخش‎ (fa) (jaxš) Plautdietsch: Kropp f Polish: wole (pl) n Portuguese: bócio m, escrófulas f pl, papeira (pt) f Romanian: gușă (ro) f Russian: зоб (ru) m (zob) Spanish: bocio (es) m, coto (es) m (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Northwestern Argentina, Peru, Venezuelan Andes - Argentinian and Venezuelan standard usage : bocio), güecho m (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), güegüecho m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Southern Mexico - Mexican standard usage : bocio) Swedish: struma (sv) c Tagalog: bosyo Thai: คอพอก Tibetan: ལྦ་བ (lba ba) Ukrainian: во́ло n (vólo) Vietnamese: bướu (vi)

Anagrams

• Rogiet, egriot, goiter

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French

Alternative forms

• goître

Etymology

It appears to be a regional derivation from Old French goitron, from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem, from Latin guttur, or a regressive derivation from goitreux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwatʁ/

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Noun

goitre m (plural goitres)

1. goitre

Further reading

• “goitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.