paralysis

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, palsy), from παραλύω (paralúō, to disable on one side). By surface analysis, para- +‎ -lysis. Doublet of palsy.

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paralysis (countable and uncountable, plural paralyses)

  1. (pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
  2. A state of being unable to act.
    The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.
    • 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, palsy).

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Noun

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paralysis f (genitive paralysis or paralyseōs or paralysios); third declension

  1. paralysis, palsy

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Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

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  • Old French: parelisie

References

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  • paralysis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • paralysis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.