eclampsia

English

Alternative forms

• eclampsy

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklampsis, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklámpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈklæmp.si.ə/

Noun

eclampsia (usually uncountable, plural eclampsias)

1. (pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.

Derived terms

• eclamptic
• preeclampsia

 

Translations

complication of pregnancy

• Catalan: eclàmpsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子癇／子痫 (zǐxián)

• Esperanto: eklampsio
• Finnish: raskauskouristus (fi)
• French: éclampsie (fr) f
• German: Eklampsie (de) f, Fraisen pl
• Greek: εκλαμψία (el) f (eklampsía)
• Irish: eaclaimsia f
• Italian: eclampsia f
• Japanese: 子癇 (ja) (しかん, shikan)
• Latin: eclampsia f
• Russian: эклампсия (ru) f (eklampsija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фра̑з m, фра̑с m

  Latin: frȃz (sh) m, frȃs (sh) m

• Spanish: eclampsia (es) f

References

• “eclampsia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “eclampsia”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Italian

Etymology

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Noun

eclampsia f (plural eclampsie)

1. (pathology) eclampsia

Derived terms

• preeclampsia

Further reading

• eclampsia on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklampsis, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklámpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈklamp.si.a/, [ɛˈkɫ̪ämps̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈklamp.si.a/, [eˈklämpsiä]

Noun

eclampsia f (genitive eclampsiae); first declension

1. (New Latin, pathology) eclampsia

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	eclampsia	eclampsiae
Genitive	eclampsiae	eclampsiārum
Dative	eclampsiae	eclampsiīs
Accusative	eclampsiam	eclampsiās
Ablative	eclampsiā	eclampsiīs
Vocative	eclampsia	eclampsiae

Descendants

• → English: eclampsia

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin eclampsia, from Ancient Greek ἔκλαμψις (éklampsis, “lightning”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈklambsja/ [eˈklãmb.sja]
• Rhymes: -ambsja
• Syllabification: e‧clamp‧sia

Noun

eclampsia f (plural eclampsias)

1. (pathology) eclampsia

Further reading

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