intestinal

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛs.tɪ.nəl/

  • Audio (General American):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtes.tɪ.nəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪnəl, -aɪnəl

Etymology 1

From intestine +‎ -al.

Adjective

intestinal (not comparable)

1. Relating to the intestines.

Derived terms

• circumintestinal
• dorsointestinal
• gastrointestinal
• hepatointestinal
• intestinal crypt
• intestinal flora
• intestinal fortitude
• intestinal gland
• intestinally
• intestinal obstruction
• intestinointestinal
• intraintestinal
• lieno-intestinal
• lienointestinal
• nasointestinal
• nonintestinal
• panintestinal
• periintestinal
• pharyngointestinal
• postintestinal
• preintestinal
• renointestinal
• stomatointestinal
• subintestinal
• supraintestinal
• transintestinal
• ureterointestinal
• uterointestinal
• vasoactive intestinal peptide
• vasointestinal
• ventrointestinal
• vitellointestinal

 

Related terms

• intestino- (and its derivatives)

 

Translations

relating to the intestines

• Arabic: مَعَوِيّ (maʕawiyy)
• Belarusian: кішо́чны (kišóčny), кі́шачны (kíšačny)
• Bulgarian: чре́вен (čréven)
• Catalan: intestinal (ca)
• Czech: střevní (cs)
• Finnish: suolisto- (fi)
• French: intestinal (fr)
• Galician: intestinal (gl)
• German: Darm-, intestinal (de)
• Italian: intestinale (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕیخۆڵەیی (rrîxolleyî)

• Macedonian: цревен (creven)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: чрѣвенъ (črěvenŭ)

• Persian: رودوی (rudavi)
• Polish: jelitowy (pl), kiszkowy, trzewiowy, trzewny
• Portuguese: intestinal (pt)
• Russian: кише́чный (ru) (kišéčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цре̑внӣ, црије̑внӣ

  Roman: crȇvnī, crijȇvnī (sh)

• Slovak: črevný (sk)
• Slovene: črevesen
• Spanish: intestinal (es)
• Ukrainian: кишкови́й (kyškovýj)
• Volapük: ninämik

See also

• enteral
• enter- (and its derivatives)
• enteric
• entero- (and its derivatives)
• gut

 

Etymology 2

From Latin intestīnus (“internal”), from intus (“within”).

Adjective

intestinal (not comparable)

1. (rare) Internal.

Anagrams

• instantlie

Catalan

Etymology

From intestí +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [in.təs.tiˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.tes.tiˈnal]

Adjective

intestinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural intestinals)

1. intestinal

Derived terms

• gastrointestinal

Further reading

• “intestinal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intestinal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “intestinal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intestinal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From intestin +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛs.ti.nal/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Adjective

intestinal (feminine intestinale, masculine plural intestinaux, feminine plural intestinales)

1. intestinal

Derived terms

• flore intestinale

Further reading

• “intestinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• latinisent

Galician

Etymology

From intestino +‎ -al.

Adjective

intestinal m or f (plural intestinais)

1. intestinal

Derived terms

• gastrointestinal

Further reading

• “intestinal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪntɛstiˈnaːl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

intestinal (no predicative form, strong nominative masculine singular intestinaler, not comparable)

1. intestinal

Declension

Positive forms of intestinal (uncomparable, no predicate)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		—	—	—	—
strong declension (without article)	nominative	intestinaler	intestinale	intestinales	intestinale
	genitive	intestinalen	intestinaler	intestinalen	intestinaler
	dative	intestinalem	intestinaler	intestinalem	intestinalen
	accusative	intestinalen	intestinale	intestinales	intestinale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der intestinale	die intestinale	das intestinale	die intestinalen
	genitive	des intestinalen	der intestinalen	des intestinalen	der intestinalen
	dative	dem intestinalen	der intestinalen	dem intestinalen	den intestinalen
	accusative	den intestinalen	die intestinale	das intestinale	die intestinalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein intestinaler	eine intestinale	ein intestinales	(keine) intestinalen
	genitive	eines intestinalen	einer intestinalen	eines intestinalen	(keiner) intestinalen
	dative	einem intestinalen	einer intestinalen	einem intestinalen	(keinen) intestinalen
	accusative	einen intestinalen	eine intestinale	ein intestinales	(keine) intestinalen

Derived terms

• extraintestinal
• gastrointestinal

Portuguese

Etymology

From intestino (“intestine”, noun) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tes.t͡ʃiˈnaw/ [ĩ.tes.t͡ʃiˈnaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tes.t͡ʃiˈnaw/ [ĩ.tes.t͡ʃiˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʃ.t͡ʃiˈnaw/ [ĩ.teʃ.t͡ʃiˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨʃ.tiˈnal/ [ĩ.tɨʃ.tiˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨʃ.tiˈnal/ [ĩ.tɨʃ.tiˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨʃ.tiˈna.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: in‧tes‧ti‧nal

Adjective

intestinal m or f (plural intestinais)

1. intestinal

Derived terms

• gastrointestinal

Further reading

• “intestinal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French intestinal.

Adjective

intestinal m or n (feminine singular intestinală, masculine plural intestinali, feminine and neuter plural intestinale)

1. intestinal

Declension

Declension of intestinal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	intestinal		intestinală	intestinali	intestinale
	definite	intestinalul		intestinala	intestinalii	intestinalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	intestinal		intestinale	intestinali	intestinale
	definite	intestinalului		intestinalei	intestinalilor	intestinalelor

Spanish

Etymology

From intestino +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intestiˈnal/ [ĩn̪.t̪es.t̪iˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: in‧tes‧ti‧nal

Adjective

intestinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural intestinales)

1. intestinal

Derived terms

• gastrointestinal
• intestinalmente

 

Further reading

• “intestinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28