epileptic

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English

Alternative forms

epileptick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπιληπτικός (epilēptikós).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation: epi‧lep‧tic

Adjective

epileptic (not comparable)

Of or relating to epilepsy.
Of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics (epileptic people).

Derived terms

Translations

of or relating to epilepsy

Catalan: epilèptic
Czech: epileptický (cs) m
Danish: epileptisk
Esperanto: epilepsia (eo)
French: épileptique (fr)
German: epileptisch (de), fallsüchtig (de) (archaic)
Greek: επιληπτικός (el) (epiliptikós)
Ancient: ἐπιληπτικός (epilēptikós)
Hindi: मिरगिया (hi) (mirgiyā), अपस्मारी (hi) (apasmārī), अपस्मारिक (apasmārik)
Hungarian: epilepsziás (hu), epileptikus (hu)
Irish: titimeach, titimis
Italian: epilettico (it)
Malay: epileptik
Norwegian:
Bokmål: epileptisk

Nynorsk: epileptisk
Old English: fiellesēoc
Portuguese: epiléptico (Portugal), epilético (Brazil)
Russian: эпилепти́ческий (ru) (epileptíčeskij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: епилѐптичкӣ

Roman: epilèptičkī (sh)
Spanish: epiléptico (es)
Volapük: peiläpik (vo)

of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics

Esperanto: (♂♀) epilepsiula, (explicitly ♂) virepilepsiula, (explicitly ♀) epilepsiulina
Hindi: मिरगिया (hi) (mirgiyā), अपस्मारी (hi) (apasmārī), अपस्मारिक (apasmārik)
Irish: titimeach
Italian: epilettico (it)
Portuguese: epiléptico (Portugal), epilético (Brazil)
Volapük: (♂♀) peiläpanik, (♂) hipeiläpanik, (♀) jipeiläpanik

Noun

epileptic (plural epileptics)

A person who has epilepsy.
- 1976 December 25, “Canada's Gay Ban”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 2:
  The present Immigration Act on the books bars entry to Canada to homosexuals, prostitutes, epileptics, and those said to be "living off the avails of homosexualism or prostitution."
(archaic) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
Synonym: antiepileptic

Translations

person who has epilepsy

Assamese: আঁৱৰীয়া (ãoria)
Bengali: মৃগীরোগী (mrigirōgi)
Catalan: epilèptic m
Czech: epileptik (cs) m, epileptička (cs) f
Danish: epileptiker
Esperanto: (♂♀) epilepsiulo, (explicitly ♂) virepilepsiulo, (explicitly ♀) epilepsiulino
German: Epileptiker (de) m, Epileptikerin (de) f
Greek: επιληπτικός (el) (epiliptikós)
Hindi: मिरगिया (hi) (mirgiyā)
Hungarian: epilepsziás (hu)
Irish: titimeach m
Italian: epilettico (it) m, epilettica (it) f
Russian: эпиле́птик (ru) m (epiléptik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̏давича̄р m, па̏давича̄рка f, епилѐптича̄р m, епилѐптича̄рка f

Roman: pȁdavičār (sh) m, pȁdavičārka (sh) f, epilèptičār (sh) m, epilèptičārka (sh) f
Volapük: (♂♀) peiläpan (vo), (♂) hipeiläpan, (♀) jipeiläpan

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épileptique, from Latin epilepticus.

Adjective

epileptic m or n (feminine singular epileptică, masculine plural epileptici, feminine and neuter plural epileptice)

epileptic

Declension

		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
		singular				plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	epileptic		epileptică		epileptici	epileptice
nominative- accusative	definite	epilepticul		epileptica		epilepticii	epilepticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	epileptic		epileptice		epileptici	epileptice
genitive- dative	definite	epilepticului		epilepticei		epilepticilor	epilepticelor

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