Skip to content

neumonía

pneumonia

noun neoo-moh-NEE-ah Rare
Body & Health Health & Illness

Origin: From Greek pneumonia, from pneumōn ('lung').

Usage Note

Neumonía is the standard medical term for pneumonia; the initial neu- is a diphthong ('neh-oo'). A common near-synonym is pulmonía, which is more colloquial and slightly less precise medically. The plural is regular: neumonías.

Examples

"El médico diagnosticó una neumonía bacteriana."

Natural Translation

The doctor diagnosed bacterial pneumonia.

Explore Spanish by topic