psühhiaatrilistes

Psühhiaatrilistes is an Estonian adjective form meaning “psychiatric” in the inessive plural, used to describe plural nouns in contexts related to psychiatry. It indicates that something exists or occurs within psychiatric settings or concerns psychiatry as a field. The form is the inessive plural of the base adjective psühhiaatriline.

Grammatically, psühhiaatriline is the base form meaning “psychiatric.” Its inessive plural ending is -listes, yielding psühhiaatrilistes for plural phrases such as a location or context. The corresponding singular inessive form is psühhiaatrilises (e.g., in the psychiatric clinic), and other case endings change according to standard Estonian declension.

Usage of the word appears primarily in medical, academic, and policy-related language. It commonly modifies plural nouns in phrases like psühhiaatrilistes haiglates (in psychiatric hospitals) or psühhiaatrilistes uuringutes (in psychiatric studies). The term helps situate discussions within the field of psychiatry and distinguishes psychiatric contexts from general medical or other domains.

Etymology traces the root to psühhiaatria (psychiatry), formed from psykhē “mind” and iatría “healing,” with the Estonian adjective suffix -iline. The plural inessive form psühhiaatrilistes is a standard morphological possibility for adjectives in Estonian, used when describing multiple items connected to the psychiatric field.