Where does “tonsillitis” come from?
Tonsillitis comes from English tonsil plus the suffix -itis, from Latin tonsillae, Ancient Greek -ῖτις, and Proto-Indo-European ten-.
tonsillitis (English): Inflammation of the tonsils
Definitions
- Inflammation of the tonsils
Ancestry of “tonsillitis”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | tonsil | Either of a pair of small masses of lymphoid... |
| 2 | Latin | tonsillae | tonsils |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *tonslilā | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | tonslis | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
Words derived from “tonsillitis”