dyslexia
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dys- + lexis + -ia. Via learned borrowing from New Latin dyslexia, produced from Latin dys- + lexis, -ia, a calque of German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) expressing the idea of difficulty, and λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), the root chosen due to apparent semantic conflation of Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”) and Latin legō (“to read”). Cf. the root of lexicon, Medieval Latin lexicon, Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “dictionary”, literally “[book of] words”).
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Noun[edit]
dyslexia (countable and uncountable, plural dyslexias)
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Further reading[edit]
- “dyslexia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “dyslexia, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “dyslexia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 1811, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “dyslexia”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1811, column 1.
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
New Latin produced from dys- + lexis + -ia, a calque of German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) expressing the idea of difficulty, and λέξις (léxis, “speech”; “diction”; “word”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dysˈlek.si.a/, [d̪ʏs̠ˈɫ̪ɛks̠iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /disˈlek.si.a/, [d̪izˈlɛksiä]
Noun[edit]
dyslexia f (genitive dyslexiae); first declension (New Latin)
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dyslexia | dyslexiae |
| Genitive | dyslexiae | dyslexiārum |
| Dative | dyslexiae | dyslexiīs |
| Accusative | dyslexiam | dyslexiās |
| Ablative | dyslexiā | dyslexiīs |
| Vocative | dyslexia | dyslexiae |
Descendants[edit]
- → English: dyslexia (learned)
Slovak[edit]
Noun[edit]
dyslexia f (genitive singular dyslexie, nominative plural dyslexie, genitive plural dyslexií)
References[edit]
- “dyslexia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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