different between dysentery vs diarrhoea

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s?n?t??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?s?nt??i/, /?d?s?nt?i/

Noun

dysentery (countable and uncountable, plural dysenteries)

1. (pathology) 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 of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
2. Diarrhea

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• shigellosis

English

Noun

diarrhoea (usually uncountable, plural diarrhoeas)

1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of diarrhea.

Derived terms

• diarrhoeal

References

• “diarrhoea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (diárrhoia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di.ar?roe?.a/, [d?iär?roe?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.ar?re.a/, [d?i?r?r???]

Noun

diarrhoea f (genitive diarrhoeae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) diarrhoea

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• diarrhoicus

Descendants

References

• d?arrhoea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• d?arrhœa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 518/3