Where does “vaginitis” come from?

Vaginitis comes from Latin vagina, from Ancient Greek -ῖτις, from Proto-Indo-European wag-, with the -itis suffix denoting inflammation of the vagina.

vaginitis (English): Inflammation of the vagina

Definitions

  1. Inflammation of the vagina

Ancestry of “vaginitis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishvaginavagina
2Latinvāgīnasheath; scabbard
3Proto-Italicwāgīnāsheath, scabbard
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwāg-to be bent

Words derived from “vaginitis”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wāg- →Every word from Proto-Italic wāgīnā →Every word from Latin vāgīna →