trauma

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔː.mə/, /ˈtɹaʊ.mə/

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Rhymes: -ɔːmə, -aʊmə

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔ.mə/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒ.mə/
• (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑ.mə/

trauma (countable and uncountable, plural traumas or traumata)

1. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:

     Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

3. An event that causes great distress.

• phonotrauma
• traumaless
• traumatic
• traumatism
• traumatise/traumatize
• trauma incidence reduction

• → Japanese: トラウマ

• trauma at OneLook Dictionary Search
• trauma in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• trauma in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• Murata, Tamura, matura

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾaw.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾaw.ma/

trauma m (plural traumes)

1. trauma

• traumatitzar

• traumàtic

• “trauma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trauma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “trauma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trauma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”) via German Trauma.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraʊ̯ma/

trauma n

1. trauma

• traumatický
• traumatizovat
• traumatologie

• trauma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• trauma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed internationalism, ultimately from Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑu̯.maː/

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• Hyphenation: trau‧ma

trauma n (plural trauma's or traumata, diminutive traumaatje n)

1. trauma

• hoofdtrauma
• traumatisch
• traumatiseren
• traumatalogie

• → Indonesian: trauma

< Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑu̯mɑ/, [ˈt̪rɑu̯mɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑumɑ
• Syllabification^(key): trau‧ma

trauma

1. trauma

• maarut, murtaa

From the Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”).

• IPA^(key): /tʁo.ma/

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. (medicine) trauma (a localised injury produced by an external action)
2. (psychology and psychoanalysis, elliptical use for trauma psychique) psychic trauma

   Synonym: traumatisme psychique

• trauma acoustique
• trauma auditif
• trauma parodontal
• trauma psychique
• trauma sonore

• → Turkish: travma

• “trauma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. an emotional wound
2. (medicine) trauma; serious physical injury

• traumático
• traumatismo
• traumatizar

From Dutch trauma, from Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrau̯ma]
• Hyphenation: trau‧ma

trauma (first-person possessive traumaku, second-person possessive traumamu, third-person possessive traumanya)

1. trauma:
   1. an event that causes great distress.
   2. (psychology, psychiatry) an emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
   3. (surgery) any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

      Synonym: rudapaksa

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

trauma (plural traumas)

1. trauma

• traumatic

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraw.ma/
• Rhymes: -awma
• Hyphenation: tràu‧ma

trauma m (plural traumi)

1. trauma

• matura, murata, rumata

• IPA^(key): /ˈtræʉ̯.mɑ/

trauma n (definite singular traumaet, indefinite plural trauma, definite plural traumaa)

1. alternative form of traume

• IPA^(key): /²træʉ̯.mɑ/

trauma n

1. definite plural of traume

Borrowed from English trauma, from Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraw.ma/

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• Rhymes: -awma
• Syllabification: trau‧ma

trauma f

1. (medicine) trauma (serious injury to the body)

   Synonym: uraz

2. (psychology) trauma (emotional wound)

• trauma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trauma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• Rhymes: -awmɐ
• Hyphenation: trau‧ma

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. trauma (emotional wound)
2. trauma (event that causes great distress)
3. (medicine) trauma (serious injury to the body)

   Synonym: traumatismo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /trǎuma/
• Hyphenation: tra‧u‧ma

tràuma f (Cyrillic spelling тра̀ума)

1. trauma

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾauma/ [ˈt̪ɾau̯.ma]
• Rhymes: -auma
• Syllabification: trau‧ma

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. (medicine, psychology) trauma
2. injury; harm

   Synonym: traumatismo

• antitrauma
• traumatizar
• traumático
• traumado

trauma

1. inflection of traumar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• mutara
• mutará