haemorrhoida

== Latin == === Alternative forms === haemorroida === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs), from αἱμορροέω (haimorrhoéō, “to lose blood”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ĭ́s), from αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) +‎ ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hae̯.mɔrˈrʰo.ɪ.da] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.morˈrɔː.i.da] === Noun === haemorrhoida f (genitive haemorrhoidae); first declension (chiefly in the plural) a hemorrhoid; a pile (vein liable to discharge blood) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === Further reading === “haemorrhŏĭda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hæmorrhŏĭda”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.