ἀφασία

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄφατος (áphatos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.pʰa.sí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.pʰaˈsi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɸaˈsi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.faˈsi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.faˈsi.a/

Noun

ἀφᾰσίᾱ • (aphasíā) f (genitive ἀφᾰσίᾱς); first declension

speechlessness

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀφᾰσίᾱ; τῆς ἀφᾰσίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ἀφᾰσίᾱ hē aphasíā
Genitive	τῆς ἀφᾰσίᾱς tês aphasíās
Dative	τῇ ἀφᾰσίᾳ têi aphasíāi
Accusative	τὴν ἀφᾰσίᾱν tḕn aphasíān
Vocative	ἀφᾰσίᾱ aphasíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: афа́зия (afázija)
→ Czech: afázie
→ Danish: afasi
→ Dutch: afasie
- Afrikaans: afasie
→ English: aphasia
→ Esperanto: afazio
→ Finnish: afasia
→ French: aphasie
→ Ido: afazio
→ Indonesian: afasia
→ Italian: afasia
→ Norwegian Bokmål: afasi
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: afasi
→ Polish: afazja
→ Portuguese: afasia
→ Russian: афа́зия (afázija)
- → Kazakh: афазия (afaziä)
→ Spanish: afasia
→ Swedish: afasi

Further reading

ἀφασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀφασία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“ἀφασία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“ἀφασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dumbness idem, page 256.
- speechlessness idem, page 800.
- swoon idem, page 849.

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