diphtheria

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪfˈθɪə.ɹi.ə/
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• General-American: /dɪfˈθɪɹ.i.ə/
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH0 F TH IH1 R IY0 AA0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From French diphtérie (later for a while also spelled diphthérie) in 1857, which was coined in 1855 with the suffix -ie to replace -ite in the previous term diphtérite for the disease because it affects more than one part of the body. The previous term (later for a while also spelled diphthérite) was coined in 1817 by Pierre Bretonneau using Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “prepared hide, leather”) in reference to the tough membrane that forms in the throat. Bretonneau perhaps coined and used the Latin term diphtheritis (with its close imitation of Greek spelling typical of Neolatin) even earlier than the French term diphtérite, which follows the French habit of sometimes spelling t for the Latin transliteration th of Greek θ (but not, for example, in thermomètre).

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: witseerkeel — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Arabic: خُنَاق (ḵunāq) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Armenian: դիֆթերիա (diftʻeria) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Azerbaijani: difteriya — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Azerbaijani: qaraboğma — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Burmese: ဆုံဆို့နာ (hcumhcui.na) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Catalan: diftèria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Cebuano: dipterya — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Chinese Mandarin: 白喉 (báihóu) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Chinese Mandarin: 白喉病 (báihóubìng) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Czech: záškrt — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Danish: difteri — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Danish: difteritis — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Dutch: difterie — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Esperanto: difterio — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Estonian: difteeria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Faroese: difteritis — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Finnish: kurkkumätä — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• French: diphtérie — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Galician: difteria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Galician: garrotillo — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Georgian: დიფთერია (dipteria) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• German: Diphtherie — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Greek: διφθερίτιδα (diftherítida) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Gujarati: ઘટસર્પ (ghaṭsarp) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Hungarian: torokgyík — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Hungarian: diftéria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Icelandic: barnaveiki — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Indonesian: difteri — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Irish: diftéire — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Italian: difterite — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Japanese: ジフテリア (jifuteria) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Kazakh: дифтерия (difteriä) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Khmer: ខាន់ស្លាក់ (khanslak) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Korean: 디프테리아 (dipeuteria) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Latvian: difterija — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Lithuanian: difterija — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Macedonian: дифте́рија (diftérija) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Malay: difteria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Persian: دیفتری (difteri) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Polish: błonica — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Polish: dyfteria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Polish: dyfteryt — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Portuguese: difteria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Romanian: difterie — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Russian: дифтери́я (difteríja) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Serbo-Croatian: gušobolja — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Slovak: záškrt — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Slovene: davica — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Slovene: difterija — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Spanish: difteria — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Swahili: dondakoo — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Swedish: difteri — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Tagalog: dipterya — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Thai: คอตีบ (kɔɔ-dtìip) — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Turkish: difteri — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Uzbek: difteriya — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract
• Vietnamese: bạch hầu — infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract