apnea

• (UK) apnoea
• (Obsolete) apnœa

a- +‎ -pnea, from the New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia), formed from ἀ- (a-, “absence of”) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breathing”).

apnea (countable and uncountable, plural apneas)

1. (pathology) The cessation of breathing, most often in reference to transient instances thereof during sleep.

• asphyxia

• apneic
• postapnea
• preapnea
• sleep apnea

• hypopnea

• apnea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• eupnea

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “apnea”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• paean, pæan

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əbˈne.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /abˈne.a/
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ap‧ne‧a

apnea f (plural apnees)

1. (pathology) apnea, (UK) apnoea
2. (sports) freediving / free-diving / free diving

• “apnea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Learned borrowing from New Latin apnoea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpneɑ/, [ˈɑpne̞ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpneɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ap‧ne‧a

apnea

1. apnea, (UK) apnoea

• uniapnea

• apean, nepaa

From New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia).

apnea f (plural apneas)

1. apnea, (UK) apnoea
2. (sports) freediving / free-diving / free diving

• apneísta
• apnea do sono

• hipopnea

• “apnea” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From English apnea, from the New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia), formed from ἀ- (a-, “absence of”) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breathing”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈap̚nɛa̯]
• Hyphenation: ap‧nèa

apnea (first-person possessive apneaku, second-person possessive apneamu, third-person possessive apneanya)

1. (emergency medicine) apnea; apnoea.

• apneu
• henti napas

• “apnea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /aˈpnɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: a‧pnè‧a

apnea f (plural apnee)

1. apnea, (UK) apnoea
2. freediving

• apneista
• apneistico

• napea, peana

From New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia).

• IPA^(key): /abˈnea/ [aβ̞ˈne.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: ap‧ne‧a

apnea f (plural apneas)

1. apnea, (UK) apnoea
2. (sports) freediving / free-diving / free diving

• apneico
• apneísta
• apnea del sueño

• hipopnea

• “apnea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014