diarrhoea

See also: diarrhœa

English

Noun

diarrhoea (usually uncountable, plural diarrhoeas)

  1. British standard spelling of diarrhea.

Derived terms

References

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διάρροια (diárrhoia).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /di.arˈroe̯.a/, [d̪iärˈroe̯ä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.arˈre.a/, [d̪iärˈrɛːä]

Noun

diarrhoea f (genitive diarrhoeae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) diarrhoea

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative diarrhoea diarrhoeae
Genitive diarrhoeae diarrhoeārum
Dative diarrhoeae diarrhoeīs
Accusative diarrhoeam diarrhoeās
Ablative diarrhoeā diarrhoeīs
Vocative diarrhoea diarrhoeae

Descendants
  • → Catalan: diarrea
  • → Galician: diarrea
  • → Italian: diarrea
  • → Middle French: diarrie
  • → Occitan: diarrèia
  • → Piedmontese: diareia, diarena
  • → Portuguese: diarreia
  • → Romansch: diarrea
  • → Spanish: diarrea

References
  • “dĭarrhoea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dĭarrhœa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 518/3
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