diabetes

From Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/, /ˌdaɪəˈbeːtɪs/

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diabetes (uncountable)

1. Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 7 September:

     In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand.

2. (slang, humorous) Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
   • 2017 August 6, “The craziest things you have to eat in New York City”, in Silver Stories‎:

     This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap.

3. Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. [from 15th c.]
   • 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, The Physical Directory:

     A Sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continuall pissing.

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 86, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:

     The lady laboured under a Diabetes, in consequence of having used the waters injudiciously for another complaint; and, that she might not be an impediment to the carriage, by ordering it to halt,as often as she should have occasion to disembogue, she had provided herself with a leathern contrivance […] .

• (group of metabolic diseases): diabetes mellitus, DM, diabeetus (humorous)

• (group of metabolic diseases): IDDM, juvenile diabetes, NIDDM

• diabetic

• beadiest

diabetes m

1. diabetes

   Synonym: cukrovka

• diabetik

• diabetes in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• diabetes in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• diabetes in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

diabetes c (singular definite diabetesen, not used in plural form)

1. diabetes

   Synonym: sukkersyge

• “diabetes” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Latin diabetes mellitus, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”). This refers to the excessive amounts of urine produced by sufferers. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdi.aːˈbeː.təs/

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧be‧tes
• Rhymes: -eːtəs

diabetes m (uncountable)

1. diabetes

• diabeet
• diabetica
• diabeticus
• diabetisch

• → Indonesian: diabetes

Learned borrowing from Latin diabētēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑbe(ː)t(ː)es/, [ˈdiɑˌbe̞(ː)t̪(ː)e̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification^(key): di‧a‧be‧tes

diabetes

1. diabetes (type I)
2. diabetes (type II)

• sokeritauti (ambiguous)
• nuoruusiän diabetes (type I)
• aikuisdiabetes (type II)

• diabeetikko

From Dutch diabetes, from Latin diabetes, from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”), via the agent noun διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

• IPA^(key): [diaˈbɛtəs] (Standard)
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧bè‧tês

diabetes (first-person possessive diabetesku, second-person possessive diabetesmu, third-person possessive diabetesnya)

1. (medicine) diabetes, a general term referring to any of various disorders characterized by excessive urination (polyuria).
2. (medicine, colloquial) diabetes mellitus, a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia, especially after eating, classically characterized by excessive urination.

   Synonyms: diabetes melitus, penyakit kencing manis, penyakit gula

• diabet

• diabetes insipidus
• diabetes melitus

• “diabetes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowing from Ancient Greek δῐᾰβήτης (diabḗtēs, “siphon; diabetes”), from δῐᾰβαίνω (diabaínō, “to step across, pass over”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈbeː.teːs/, [d̪iäˈbeːt̪eːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈbe.tes/, [d̪iäˈbɛːt̪es]

diabētēs m (genitive diabētae); first declension

1. a siphon

   Synonym: sīphō

   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.10:

     Naturali enim spiritu omne alimentum virentis, quasi quaedam anima, per medullam trunci veluti per siphonem quem diabeten vocant mechanici, trahitur in summum: […]

     For by natural respiration all the nourishment of a green plant is drawn, as a sort of vital breath, into the highest point, passing through the pith of the stem as though through a siphon, which mechanics call diabetes; […]

2. (New Latin, pathology) diabetes

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

• → English: diabetes

• “diabetes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

• IPA^(key): /di.a.be.tes/, [dɪ.ɑ.ˈbeː.teːs]

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

• sukkersyke

“diabetes” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the Ancient Greek participle διαβήτης (diabḗtēs, “passing through”).

• IPA^(key): /di.a.beː.teːs/, [dɪ.ɑ.ˈbeː.teːs]

diabetes m (singular definite diabetesen) (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

• sukkersjuke

“diabetes” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• diabete

diabetes m or f (uncountable)

1. diabetes (a group of metabolic diseases)

• The gender of this Portuguese noun varies from speaker to speaker. Some use it as a masculine noun and others as a feminine noun.

• IPA^(key): /djaˈbetes/ [d̪jaˈβ̞e.t̪es]
• Rhymes: -etes
• Syllabification: dia‧be‧tes

diabetes f (plural diabetes)

1. diabetes

• diabético

• “diabetes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014