hernia

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). See also yarn and cord.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)niə/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)niə

hernia (plural hernias or herniae or (dated) herniæ)

1. (pathology) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.

   give someone a hernia

   have a hernia

• Neriah, Rehani, hairen, hearin'

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-. Cognates include Sanskrit हिर (hira), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), and Old English ġearn (English yarn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈher.ni.a/, [ˈhɛrniä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.ni.a/, [ˈɛrniä]

hernia f (genitive herniae); first declension

1. protruded viscus, hernia

First-declension noun.

• “hernia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hernia 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)

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾnja/ [ˈeɾ.nja]
• Rhymes: -eɾnja
• Syllabification: her‧nia

Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”).

hernia f (plural hernias)

1. (pathology) hernia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hernia

1. only used in se hernia, third-person singular present indicative of herniarse
2. only used in te ... hernia, syntactic variant of hérniate, second-person singular imperative of herniarse

• “hernia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• herían