dementia
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Noun edit
dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias or dementiae)
- (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
- Madness or insanity.
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progressive decline in cognitive function
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madness or insanity
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Finnish edit
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Noun edit
dementia
Declension edit
Inflection of dementia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | dementia | dementiat | ||
genitive | dementian | dementioiden dementioitten | ||
partitive | dementiaa | dementioita | ||
illative | dementiaan | dementioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | dementia | dementiat | ||
accusative | nom. | dementia | dementiat | |
gen. | dementian | |||
genitive | dementian | dementioiden dementioitten dementiainrare | ||
partitive | dementiaa | dementioita | ||
inessive | dementiassa | dementioissa | ||
elative | dementiasta | dementioista | ||
illative | dementiaan | dementioihin | ||
adessive | dementialla | dementioilla | ||
ablative | dementialta | dementioilta | ||
allative | dementialle | dementioille | ||
essive | dementiana | dementioina | ||
translative | dementiaksi | dementioiksi | ||
abessive | dementiatta | dementioitta | ||
instructive | — | dementioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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compounds
Further reading edit
- “dementia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Latin edit
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈmen.ti.a/, [d̪eːˈmɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈmen.t͡si.a/, [d̪eˈmɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun edit
dēmentia f (genitive dēmentiae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | dēmentia | dēmentiae |
Genitive | dēmentiae | dēmentiārum |
Dative | dēmentiae | dēmentiīs |
Accusative | dēmentiam | dēmentiās |
Ablative | dēmentiā | dēmentiīs |
Vocative | dēmentia | dēmentiae |
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Adjective edit
dēmentia
References edit
- “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dementia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dementia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dementia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin