ἀφασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄφατος (áphatos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.pʰa.sí.aː/ → /a.ɸaˈsi.a/ → /a.faˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.pʰa.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.pʰaˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɸaˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.faˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.faˈsi.a/

Noun

ἀφᾰσίᾱ • (aphasíā) f (genitive ἀφᾰσίᾱς); first declension

1. speechlessness

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀφᾰσίᾱ; τῆς ἀφᾰσίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ἀφᾰσίᾱ hē aphasíā
Genitive	τῆς ἀφᾰσίᾱς tês aphasíās
Dative	τῇ ἀφᾰσίᾳ têi aphasíāi
Accusative	τὴν ἀφᾰσίᾱν tḕn aphasíān
Vocative	ἀφᾰσίᾱ aphasíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: афа́зия (afázija)
• → Czech: afázie
• → Danish: afasi
• → Dutch: afasie
  • Afrikaans: afasie
• → English: aphasia
• → Esperanto: afazio
• → Finnish: afasia
• → French: aphasie
• → Ido: afazio
• → Indonesian: afasia
• → Italian: afasia
• → Norwegian Bokmål: afasi
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: afasi
• → Polish: afazja
• → Portuguese: afasia
• → Russian: афа́зия (afázija)
  • → Kazakh: афазия (afaziä)
• → Spanish: afasia
• → Swedish: afasi

Further reading

• ἀφασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀφασία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀφασία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἀφασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dumbness idem, page 256.
  • speechlessness idem, page 800.
  • swoon idem, page 849.