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Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English agony), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑɡoniɑ/,
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): a‧go‧ni‧a
Noun
agonia
- agony, death struggle
- Synonym: kuolinkamppailu
Declension
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ɡoˈni.a/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: a‧go‧nì‧a
Noun
agonia f (plural agonie)
- agony
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English agony. Possible borrowed from German Agonie or from French agonie, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”). First attested in 1722.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈɡɔ.ɲa/
- Rhymes: -ɔɲa
- Syllabification: a‧go‧nia
Noun
agonia f
- agony (struggle that precedes death)
Declension
Derived terms
Collocations
Collocations
- bliski agonii ― close to agony
- powolna agonia ― slow agony
- przedśmiertna agonia ― dying agony
- bolesna agonia ― painful agony
- długa agonia ― long agony
- straszliwa agonia ― excruciating agony
- długotrwała agonia ― lengthy agony
- wieczna agonia ― eternal agony
- ludzka agonia ― human agony
- stan agonii ― a state of agony
- opis agonii ― a description of (someone's) agony
- zapis agonii ― a record/transcript of (someone's) agony
- świadek agonii ― a witness to (someone's) agony
- męka agonii ― the ordeal of agony
- faza agonii ― the phase of agony
- początek agonii ― the beginning of agony
- moment/chwila agonii ― a moment of agony
- czas agonii ― the time of agony
- okres agonii ― the period of agony
- godzina agonii ― an hour of agony
- dzień agonii ― a day of agony
- proces agonii ― a process of agony
- przedłużać/przedłużyć ― to prolong agony
- przeciągać agonię ― to draw out agony
- przyspieszyć/przyśpieszyć agonię ― to accelerate/speed up/hasten agony
- przeżywać agonię ― to experience/live through/go through agony
- oznaczać agonię ― to mean agony
- towarzyszyć agonii ― to accompany agony
- agonia trwa/potrwa ― agony lasts/will last (a certaim amount of time)
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “agonia”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “agonia”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Mikołaj z Mościsk (1722) Elementarzyk Cwiczenia Duchownego, page 466
- ^ agonia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Further reading
- agonia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- agonia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin agonia, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).
Pronunciation
Noun
agonia f (plural agonias)
- agony (violent contest or striving)
- (uncountable) the state of agony
- agony (symptom)
Synonyms