paralysis
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /pəˈɹæləsəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]paralysis (countable and uncountable, plural paralyses)
- (pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
- 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”.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- acroparalysis
- analysis paralysis
- angioparalysis
- Australian paralysis tick
- Chronic bee paralysis virus
- chronic bee paralysis virus
- fowl paralysis
- general paralysis
- general paralysis of the insane
- hemiparalysis
- immunoparalysis
- infantile paralysis
- iridoparalysis
- keraunoparalysis
- laryngoparalysis
- neuroparalysis
- paralysis agitans
- paralysis by analysis
- paralysis tick
- pseudoparalysis
- pyjama paralysis
- sleep paralysis
- telegrapher's paralysis
- tick paralysis
- vasoparalysis
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]loss of muscle control
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state of inability to act
See also
[edit]- -plegia: paraplegia, quadriplegia etc.
- paresis
Further reading
[edit]- “paralysis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “paralysis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “paralysis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /paˈra.ly.sis/, [päˈrälʲʏs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈra.li.sis/, [päˈräːlis̬is]
Noun
[edit]paralysis f (genitive paralysis or paralyseōs or paralysios); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | paralysis | paralysēs paralyseis |
genitive | paralysis paralyseōs paralysios |
paralysium |
dative | paralysī | paralysibus |
accusative | paralysim paralysin paralysem1 |
paralysēs paralysīs |
ablative | paralysī paralyse1 |
paralysibus |
vocative | paralysis paralysi |
paralysēs paralyseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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.
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