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itis
itis
English
Noun
itis (plural itises)
- (informal) A medical condition accompanied by inflammation.
- 1973, April 16, “Scorecard”, Robert W. Creamer ed., in Sports Illustrated
- “. . . Arthritis, tendinitis and all those other itises will eventually catch up with you.”
- 1973, April 16, “Scorecard”, Robert W. Creamer ed., in Sports Illustrated
- (informal, Caribbean) The feeling of sleepiness after eating a heavy meal, usually the itis.
References
- “itis” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
Latin
Verb
ītis
- second-person plural present active indicative of eō
References
- itis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press