otitis

English

Etymology

From ot- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʊˈtaɪ.tɪs/

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Noun

otitis (countable and uncountable, plural otitides or otitises)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the ear.

Derived terms

• acute otitis media
• aerotitis
• chronic suppurative otitis media
• otitic
• otitis externa
• otitis media
• panotitis

Translations

inflammation of the ear

• Asturian: otitis f
• Bulgarian: отит m (otit)
• Catalan: otitis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳炎 (zh) (ěryán)

• Dutch: oorontsteking (nl) f, otitis (nl) f
• Esperanto: otito
• Finnish: korvatulehdus (fi)
• French: otite (fr) f
• Friulian: otite f
• Galician: otite (gl) f
• German: Mittelohrentzündung (de) f, Otitis (de) f
• Greek: ωτίτιδα (el) (otítida)
• Italian: otite (it) f
• Japanese: 耳炎 (じえん, jien)
• Korean: 이염 (iyeom)
• Malay: radang telinga, otitis
• Occitan: otiti f
• Persian: اوتیت (otit)
• Piedmontese: otite f
• Portuguese: otite (pt) f
• Russian: оти́т (ru) m (otít)
• Spanish: otitis (es) f
• Swedish: öroninflammation (sv) c, otitit c
• Tahitian: tui
• Turkish: otit
• Vietnamese: viêm tai

See also

• otalgia

Spanish

Etymology

From Scientific Latin otitis, from Ancient Greek ὠτός (ōtós, “ear”) +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈtitis/ [oˈt̪i.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: o‧ti‧tis

Noun

otitis f (plural otitis)

1. (pathology) otitis

Derived terms

• otitis externa

Further reading

• “otitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025