rheumatism

rheumatism

English

Etymology

First attested 1601, from Latin rheumatismus (“rheum”), from Ancient Greek ῥευματισμός (rheumatismós, “humour, discharge, rheum”) from ῥευματίζομαι (rheumatízomai, “I suffer from a rheum”) from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz.əm/
• (US, dialectal, obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz/[1]

Noun

rheumatism (countable and uncountable, plural rheumatisms)

1. (pathology) Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
   • 1874, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Alive:

     The old man had become a confirmed invalid, confined by chronicrheumatism to his chair.

2. (pathology) atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

Derived terms

• desert rheumatism
• rheumatismal
• rheumatismoid
• rheumatism weed

 

Related terms

• rheum
• rheumatic
• rheumaticky
• rheumatoid
• rheumatologist
• rheumatology
• rheumy

 

Translations

any painful disorder of muscles, tendons, joints, bones and nerves

Arabic: رَثْيَة‎ f (raṯya) Armenian: ռևմատիզմ (hy) (ṙewmatizm) Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: ревматизъм m (revmatizǎm) Catalan: reumatisme m Chinese: Mandarin: 風濕病／风湿病 (zh) (fēngshībìng), 風濕／风湿 (zh) (fēngshī) Czech: revmatismus (cs) m Esperanto: reŭmatismo (eo) Faroese: gikt f Finnish: reumatismi (fi), reuma (fi) French: rhumatisme (fr) m Galician: reumatismo (gl) m, reuma f German: Rheuma (de) n, Rheumatismus (de) m Hebrew: שיגרון‎ Hungarian: reuma (hu), (folksy) csúz (hu) Japanese: リウマチ (riumachi), リューマチ (ryūmachi) Kazakh: ревматизм (revmatizm), құздама (qūzdama) Khmer: ឈឺសន្លាក់ឆ្អឹង (chɨɨ sɑnlak chʼəng) Korean: 류머티즘 (ko) (ryumeotijeum) Lezgi: кпул (kpul) Maori: kaikoiwi, rūmātiki Marathi: संधिवात (sandhivāt) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: agizii Nepali: please add this translation if you can Ottoman Turkish: یل‎ (yel) Plautdietsch: Rietinj f Polish: reumatyzm (pl) m Portuguese: reumatismo (pt) m Russian: ревмати́зм (ru) m (revmatízm) Scottish Gaelic: lòinidh m or f, siataig f Sicilian: ramatichi m pl Slovak: reumatizmus (sk) m Spanish: reumatismo (es) m Tagalog: rayuma Tausug: ulapid Thai: รูมาติซึม Turkish: romatizma (tr) Vietnamese: (bệnh) phong thấp (vi), (bệnh) tê thấp (vi), (bệnh) thấp khớp (vi)

rheumatoid arthritis — See also translations at rheumatoid arthritis

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: nivelreuma (fi) Galician: reuma f Plautdietsch: Rietinj f Polish: reumatyzm (pl) m Russian: ревмати́зм (ru) m (revmatízm) Scottish Gaelic: lòinidh m or f, siataig f Spanish: artritis reumatoide f

References

1. Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, DOI:10.7312/hall93950, →ISBN, § 3, page 91.

Anagrams

• Mithraeums