different between tumour vs struma

English

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tume? (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

Noun

tumour (plural tumours)

1. (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

Usage notes

Tumour is the favoured spelling throughout the English-speaking world with the exception of the United States, where tumor is standard.

Derived terms

• tumourigenesis

Translations

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tiu?mur/, /tiu??mu?r/

Noun

tumour (plural tumours) (Late Middle English)

1. tumour (abnormal or morbid bodily growth)
2. The growth of tumours or boils.

Descendants

• English: tumour, tumor

References

• “tum?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-30.

Old French

Alternative forms

• tumeur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tumor.

Noun

tumour f (oblique plural tumours, nominative singular tumour, nominative plural tumours)

1. tumor (abnormal swelling of an animal's living tissue)
   • 1288, Somme Me Gautier

     Tumour ou enflour

Descendants

• French: tumeur
• ? Middle English: tumour
  • English: tumour, tumor

English

Etymology

From Latin str?ma.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st?u?m?/

Noun

struma (countable and uncountable, plural strumas or strumae)

1. (pathology) Scrofula.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 186:

     This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.

2. (pathology) A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. struma

Latin

Etymology

From stru?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?stru?.ma/, [?s?(t?)?u?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?stru.ma/, [?st??u?m?]

Noun

str?ma f (genitive str?mae); first declension

1. a scrofulous tumor, struma

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• struma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• struma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• struma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• struma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, indefinite plural strumaer, definite plural strumaene)

1. (pathology) a goitre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

struma m (definite singular strumaen, uncountable)

1. (pathology) a goitre

Venetian

Noun

struma f (plural strume)

1. effort, toil