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English
Etymology
From 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 “ words”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dyslexia (countable and uncountable, plural dyslexias)
- (neurology, pathology) A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
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Further reading
- “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
Etymology
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
Noun
dyslexia f (genitive dyslexiae); first declension (New Latin)
- (Contemporary Latin) dyslexia
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Slovak
Noun
dyslexia f (genitive singular dyslexie, nominative plural dyslexie, genitive plural dyslexií)
- (neurology, pathology) dyslexia
References
- “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, 2003–2024