congenital

See also: congénital

English

Etymology

From Latin congenitus + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈdʒɛnɪt(ə)l/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

congenital (not comparable)

1. (of a trait or a disease) Present since birth.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) congenite, (archaic) genetous; see also Thesaurus:innate

   Antonym: acquired

Derived terms

• CHILD syndrome
• congenital amputee
• congenital analgesia
• congenital contractural arachnodactyly
• congenital disorder
• congenital heart defect
• congenital heart disease
• congenital insensitivity to pain
• congenitally
• congenitalness
• noncongenital

 

Related terms

• con-
• genital

Translations

present since birth

• Bulgarian: вроден (bg) (vroden), по рождение (po roždenie)
• Catalan: congènit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 先天せんてん (zh) (xiāntiān)

• Czech: vrozený (cs) m
• Danish: medfødt
• Dutch: aangeboren (nl)
• Esperanto: denaska
• Faroese: viðføddur
• Finnish: synnynnäinen (fi)
• French: congénital (fr)
• Galician: conxénito m
• German: angeboren (de); (only specialist also) kongenital (de)
• Greek: συγγενής (el) (syngenís)

  Ancient: συγγενικός (sungenikós)

• Haitian Creole: konjenital
• Hebrew: מולד (mulad)
• Hungarian: veleszületett (hu)
• Icelandic: meðfæddur
• Ido: kunnaskinta (io)
• Italian: congenito (it)
• Japanese: 先天的せんてんてき (せんてんてき, sententeki)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زکماک (zikmak)

• Lithuanian: įgimtas m
• Manx: dooghyssagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medfødt

  Nynorsk: medfødd

• Polish: wrodzony (pl)
• Portuguese: congênito (pt) (Brazil), congénito (pt) (Portugal)
• Russian: врождённый (ru) (vroždjónnyj), конгенита́льный (ru) (kongenitálʹnyj)
• Spanish: congénito (es)
• Swedish: medfödd (sv), kongenital (sv) (medical term)
• Telugu: పుట్టు (te) (puṭṭu)
• Turkish: konjenital, doğumsal (tr)
• Ukrainian: вроджений (vrodženyj)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French congénital.

Adjective

congenital m or n (feminine singular congenitală, masculine plural congenitali, feminine and neuter plural congenitale)

1. congenital

Declension

Declension of congenital

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	congenital		congenitală	congenitali	congenitale
	definite	congenitalul		congenitala	congenitalii	congenitalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	congenital		congenitale	congenitali	congenitale
	definite	congenitalului		congenitalei	congenitalilor	congenitalelor