Stomatitis
/ˌstoʊ.məˈtaɪ.tɪs/noun
Inflammation of the mouth, especially of the mucous lining.
Did you know?Stomatitis is built from Greek stoma (“mouth”) plus the medical suffix -itis, a pattern that turned body parts into diagnostic language long before modern medicine.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
στόμα (stóma)
“mouth”
Ancient Greek
Greek
-ῖτις (-îtis)
“inflammation, disease of”
19th Century
French/Medical Latin
stomatite
“inflammation of the mouth”
19th Century
English
stomatitis
“inflammation of the mouth”