paralysis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”). Doublet of palsy.

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /pəˈɹæləsəs/
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun

paralysis (countable and uncountable, plural paralyses)

  1. (pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
  2. A state of being unable to act.
    The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.

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Further reading
  • paralysis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • paralysis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • paralysis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /paˈra.ly.sis/, [päˈrälʲʏs̠ɪs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈra.li.sis/, [päˈräːlis̬is]

Noun

paralysis f (genitive paralysis or paralyseōs or paralysios); third declension

  1. paralysis, palsy

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative paralysis paralysēs
paralyseis
Genitive paralysis
paralyseōs
paralysios		 paralysium
Dative paralysī paralysibus
Accusative paralysim
paralysin
paralysem1		 paralysēs
paralysīs
Ablative paralysī
paralyse1		 paralysibus
Vocative paralysis
paralysi		 paralysēs
paralyseis

1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants
  • Old French: parelisie

References
  • “paralysis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • paralysis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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