diagnose

See also: Diagnose

English

Etymology

Back-formation from diagnosis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌɪ.əɡˌnəʊz/, /ˌdʌɪ.əɡˈnəʊz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/, /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnoʊs/

• Audio (Southern England); /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnəʊz/:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊs

Verb

diagnose (third-person singular simple present diagnoses, present participle diagnosing, simple past and past participle diagnosed)

1. (transitive, medicine) To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
2. (by extension) To determine the cause of a problem.
   • 1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264:

     But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.

   • 2002, John J. Schiavone, Training for On-board Bus Electronics, page 19:

     Mechanics use this extremely portable tool to diagnose engine faults, clear fault codes, and export data.

Usage notes

• Some argue that to "diagnose [someone] with a disease" is an incorrect usage because the verb takes the physician as subject and a disease as object.

Derived terms

• misdiagnose
• overdiagnose
• prediagnose
• rediagnose
• retrodiagnose
• underdiagnose
• undiagnose

 

Translations

determine the root cause of

• Arabic: شَخَّصَ (ar) (šaḵḵaṣa)
• Armenian: ախտորոշել (hy) (axtorošel)
• Asturian: diagnosticar
• Belarusian: дыягнастава́ць impf or pf (dyjahnastavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: диагностицирам (diagnosticiram)
• Catalan: diagnosticar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 診斷／诊断 (zh) (zhěnduàn)

• Cornish: diagnosa
• Czech: diagnostikovat (cs)
• Danish: diagnosticere
• Dutch: diagnosticeren (nl)
• Esperanto: diagnozi
• Finnish: diagnosoida (fi)
• French: diagnostiquer (fr)
• Galician: diagnosticar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: diagnostizieren (de)
• Greek: διαγιγνώσκω (el) (diagignósko)
• Hebrew: אבחן (ivkhén)
• Hungarian: diagnosztizál (hu)
• Italian: diagnosticare (it)
• Japanese: 診断する (ja) (しんだんする, shindan suru)
• Kazakh: диагностикалау (diagnostikalau), диагноз қою (diagnoz qoü), анықтау (anyqtau)
• Khmer: រោគវិនិច្ឆ័យ (rookvinɨcchay)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: diagnosticēt
• Luxembourgish: diagnostizéieren
• Maori: tautuhi mate
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: оношлох (mn) (onošlox)

• Norman: dgiag'noser
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: diagnozować (pl)
• Portuguese: diagnosticar (pt)
• Romanian: diagnostica (ro)
• Russian: диагности́ровать (ru) impf (diagnostírovatʹ)
• Spanish: diagnosticar (es)
• Swedish: diagnostisera (sv)
• Thai: วินิจฉัย (th) (wí-nít-chǎi)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: діагностува́ти impf or pf (diahnostuváty)
• Vietnamese: chẩn đoán (vi)

Anagrams

• San Diego, Sandiego, agonised

Danish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

diagnose c (singular definite diagnosen, plural indefinite diagnoser)

1. diagnosis

Declension

Declension of diagnose

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	diagnose	diagnosen	diagnoser	diagnoserne
genitive	diagnoses	diagnosens	diagnosers	diagnosernes

References

• “diagnose” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagnose. Ultimately from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdi.ɑxˈnoː.zə/, /ˌdi.aːˈɣnoː.zə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: di‧ag‧no‧se
• Rhymes: -oːzə

Noun

diagnose f (plural diagnoses or diagnosen, diminutive diagnosetje n)

1. diagnosis

Derived terms

• diagnostisch

Related terms

• diagnosticeren

Descendants

• → Indonesian: diagnosa, diagnose

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaɡ.noz/

Noun

diagnose f (plural diagnoses)

1. diagnosis

Descendants

• → Dutch: diagnose

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch diagnose, from French diagnose. Ultimately from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis). Doublet of diagnosa and diagnosis.

Noun

diagnose (first-person possessive diagnoseku, second-person possessive diagnosemu, third-person possessive diagnosenya)

1. Superseded spelling of diagnosis.

Interlingua

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

diagnose (plural diagnoses)

1. diagnosis

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

diagnose m (definite singular diagnosen, indefinite plural diagnoser, definite plural diagnosene)

1. diagnosis

Related terms

• diagnostisere
• diagnostisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

diagnose m (definite singular diagnosen, indefinite plural diagnosar, definite plural diagnosane)

1. diagnosis

Related terms

• diagnostisk