Etymograph

English

bronchitis

Bronchitis comes from Late Latin bronchus, and goes back to Ancient Greek βρόγχος ‘windpipe’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEβρόγχος‘windpipe’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEbronchus
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2015bronchitis

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEβρόγχος‘windpipe’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEbronchus
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2015bronchitis

Earliest quotation: 2015, Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respirat: “Histological examination showed neutrophilic or pleocellular proliferative necrotizing bronchitis…”

Formed from βρόγχος ‘windpipe’ + -itis

Every English word from Ancient Greek βρόγχος

Today it means

noun An inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.

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Etymograph / Ancient Greek βρόγχος / bronchitis

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