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dysentery

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • General-American: /ˈdɪs.ənˌtɛɹ.i/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪs.ən.tə.ɹi/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪs.ən.tɹi/
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  • CMU ARPABET: D IH1 S AH0 N T EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

diarrhea.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: infectious disease

Narrower terms: amebic dysentery, amoebic dysentery, shigellosis, bacillary dysentery

History

Etymology

From Middle English dissenterie, from Old French dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + ἔντερα (éntera, “bowels”).

Across languages

Translations

149 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: disenterie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Albanian: dizenteri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Arabic: زُحَار (zuḥār) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Armenian: դիզենտերիա (dizenteria) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Armenian: թանչ (tʻančʻ) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Old Armenian: թանչ (tʻančʻ) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Asturian: disentería — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Azerbaijani: dizenteriya — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Bashkir: дизентерия (dizenteriya) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Basque: disenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Belarusian: дызентэры́я (dyzjenterýja) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Bengali: আমাশয় (amaśoẏ) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Breton: fluz-gwad — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Bulgarian: дизентерия (dizenterija) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Catalan: disenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Cebuano: disenteriya — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Palantla Chinantec: dsag3 jmø2 — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Chinese Cantonese: 痢疾 (lei6 zat6) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Chinese: 痢疾 (lī-chi̍t) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Chinese Mandarin: 痢疾 (lìji) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Chinese Mandarin: 白痢 (báilì) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Chinese Mandarin: 赤痢 (chìlì) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Czech: úplavice — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Czech: dyzentérie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Danish: dysenteri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Dutch: dysenterie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Esperanto: disenterio — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Estonian: düsenteeria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Faroese: blóðsótt — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Finnish: punatauti — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Finnish: shigelloosi — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Finnish: dysenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • French: dysenterie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Galician: disentería — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Georgian: დიზენტერია (dizenṭeria) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • German: Dysenterie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • German: Ruhr — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Greek: δυσεντερία (dysentería) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Ancient Greek: δυσεντερία (dusentería) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Haitian Creole: disantri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hebrew: דִּיזֶנְטֶרְיָה (dizenterya) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hiligaynon: balaód — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: अतिसार (atisār) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: अन्नगन्धि (annagandhi) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: अन्नगंधि (annagandhi) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: आमाशय (āmāśay) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: ग्रहणी (grahṇī) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: प्रवाहिका (pravāhikā) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: पेचिश (peciś) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: दस्त (dast) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hindi: डायरिया (ḍāyriyā) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hungarian: vérhas — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Hungarian: dizentéria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Icelandic: iðrakreppa — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Icelandic: blóðkreppusótt — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Icelandic: blóðfallssótt — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Icelandic: blóðsótt — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Ido: disenterio — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Ilocano: sika — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Indonesian: disentri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Ingrian: punatauti — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Irish: dinnireacht — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Irish: flosc fola — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Irish: rith fola — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Italian: dissenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Jamaican Creole: disnchri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Japanese: 赤痢 (sekiri) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Kabiye: anɩza kʊdɔŋ — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Kalmyk: туулвр (tuulvr) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Kankanaey: lawit — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Kazakh: дизентерия (dizenteriä) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Khmer: មួល (muəl) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Korean: 이질 (ijil) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Northern Kurdish: dîzanterî — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Kyrgyz: дизентерия (dizenteriya) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Latin: dysenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Latvian: dizentērija — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Lingala: mokungúlu — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Lingala: mwǎzákónga — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Lithuanian: dizenterija — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Luxembourgish: Dysenterie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Macedonian: дизентерија (dizenterija) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Malagasy: nivalan-dra — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Malay: disenteri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Malayalam: വയറുകടി (vayaṟukaṭi) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Maltese: diżinterija — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Māori: kōea — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Māori: mate kōea — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Mongolian: улаан суулга (ulaan suulga) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Mongolian: дизентери (dizenteri) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Mongolian: цусан суулга (cusan suulga) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Mongolian: жүсэр (žüser) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Khiamniungan Naga: thāitshíu — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Navajo: chąądił — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Norman: dysenterie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dysenteri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dysenteri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Occitan: dessentèri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Old Occitan: dissenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Old Norse: blóðsótt — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Persian: دیسانتری — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Polish: dyzenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Polish: czerwonka — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Portuguese: disenteria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Punjabi: ਡਾਇਨੇਟੇਰੀ (ḍāineṭerī) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Quechua: yawar q'icha — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Romanian: dizenterie — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Russian: дизентери́я (dizenteríja) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Sanskrit: अतिसार (atisāra) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Sanskrit: अन्नगन्धि (annagandhi) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Sanskrit: आमाशय (āmāśaya) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Sanskrit: ग्रहणी (grahaṇī) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Sanskrit: प्रवाहिका (pravāhikā) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Scottish Gaelic: buinnteachd — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Scottish Gaelic: bronn-sgaoileadh — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Serbo-Croatian: дизентѐрија — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Serbo-Croatian: срдо̀боља — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Serbo-Croatian: dizentèrija — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Serbo-Croatian: srdòbolja — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Sicilian: dissintirìa — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Sinhalese: අතීසාරය (atīsāraya) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Slovak: úplavica — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Slovak: dyzentéria — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Slovene: griža — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Spanish: disentería — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Swedish: dysenteri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tagalog: disenteriya — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tagalog: daragis — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tagalog: iti — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tagalog: pag-iiti — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tagalog: balaod — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tajik: дизентерия (dizenteriya) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tamil: இரத்தக்கழிசல் (irattakkaḻical) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tamil: சீதபேதி (cītapēti) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tatar: дизентерия (dizenteriyä) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Telugu: నీళ్ల విరేచనాలు (nīḷla virēcanālu) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Telugu: గ్రహణి (grahaṇi) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Thai: โรคบิด (rôok-bìt) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tok Pisin: pekpek blut — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Tok Pisin: pekpek wara wantaim blut — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Turkish: dizanteri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Ukrainian: дизентері́я (dyzenteríja) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Uzbek: дизентерия (dizenteriya) — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Uzbek: dizenteriya — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Vietnamese: kiết lị — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Vietnamese: lị — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Vietnamese: kiết — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Welsh: dysentri — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
  • Zhuang: bingh'okleih — disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
Real reading context

dysentery in complete knowledge articles