different between dietitian vs diabetes

English

Alternative forms

• dietician

Etymology

Irregular spelling of diet +? -ician, probably influenced by dietetic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da???t???n/

Noun

dietitian (plural dietitians)

1. A person who studies or practices dietetics.
   • 2013, Nutrition for Nursing, Edition 5.0, Assessment Technologies Institute, page 142:

     The dietitian works with the client to develop meal planning that meets the client's needs based on healthy food choices.

Usage notes

• Professionals in the field prefer dietitian to dietician and most corpora show the preferred spelling to be significantly more common, but BNC shows them about equally common in the UK. The Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE) shows the preferred spelling about 40% more common.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• initiated

English

Etymology

From Latin diab?t?s (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (diab?t?s), from Ancient Greek ???????? (diabaín?, “to pass through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da???bi?ti?z/, /?da???bi?t?s/

Noun

diabetes (uncountable)

1. Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. [from 15th c.]
   • 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, The Physical Directory:

     A Sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continuall pissing.

   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 86:

     The lady laboured under a Diabetes, in consequence of having used the waters injudiciously for another complaint; and, that she might not be an impediment to the carriage, by ordering it to halt,as often as she should have occasion to disembogue, she had provided herself with a leathern contrivance […] .

2. Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 7 September:

     In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand.

3. (slang, humorous) Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.

Synonyms

• (group of metabolic diseases): diabetes mellitus, DM, diabeetus (humorous)

Hyponyms

• (group of metabolic diseases): IDDM, juvenile diabetes, NIDDM

Derived terms

• diabesity
• diabetes mellitus
• diabetes insipidus
• type 1 diabetes
• type 2 diabetes
• type 3 diabetes

Related terms

• diabetic

Translations

Anagrams

• beadiest

Czech

Noun

diabetes m

1. diabetes

   Synonym: cukrovka

Related terms

• diabetik

Further reading

• diabetes in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• diabetes in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
• diabetes in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin diabetes mellitus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diabaín?, “to pass through”), via the agent noun ???????? (diab?t?s, “passing through”). This refers to the excessive amounts of urine produced by sufferers. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.a??be?.t?s/
• Hyphenation: di?a?be?tes
• Rhymes: -e?t?s

Noun

diabetes m (uncountable)

1. diabetes

Related terms

• diabeet
• diabetica
• diabeticus
• diabetisch

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: diabetes

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di?be(?)t(?)es/, [?di??be?(?)t?(?)e?s?]
• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification: di?a?be?tes

Noun

diabetes

1. diabetes (type I)
2. diabetes (type II)

Declension

Synonyms

• sokeritauti (ambiguous)
• nuoruusiän diabetes (type I)
• aikuisdiabetes (type II)

Derived terms

• diabeetikko

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch diabetes, from Latin diabetes, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diabaín?, “to pass through”), via the agent noun ???????? (diab?t?s, “passing through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dia?b?t?s] (Standard)
• Hyphenation: di?a?bè?tês

Noun

diabetes (first-person possessive diabetesku, second-person possessive diabetesmu, third-person possessive diabetesnya)

1. (medicine) diabetes, a general term referring to any of various disorders characterized by excessive urination (polyuria).
2. (medicine, colloquial) diabetes mellitus, a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia, especially after eating, classically characterized by excessive urination.

   Synonyms: diabetes melitus, penyakit kencing manis, penyakit gula

Alternative forms

• diabet

Hyponyms

• diabetes insipidus
• diabetes melitus

Further reading

• “diabetes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek participle ???????? (diab?t?s, “passing through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.a.be.tes/, [d?.?.?be?.te?s]

Noun

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

Synonyms

• sukkersyke

References

“diabetes” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek participle ???????? (diab?t?s, “passing through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.a.be?.te?s/, [d?.?.?be?.te?s]

Noun

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

Synonyms

• sukkersjuke

References

“diabetes” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• diabete

Noun

diabetes m or f (in variation) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

Usage notes

• The gender of this Portuguese noun varies from speaker to speaker. Some use it as a masculine noun and others as a feminine noun.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja?betes/, [d?ja???e.t?es]

Noun

diabetes f (plural diabetes)

1. diabetes

Related terms

• diabético