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Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, palsy), from παραλύω (paralúō, to disable on one side). By surface analysis, para- +‎ -lysis. Doublet of palsy.

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  • (US) IPA(key): /pəˈɹæləsəs/
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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.
    • 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, palsy).

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

  1. paralysis, palsy

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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 edit

  • Old French: parelisie

References edit

  • 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