ἀφασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄφατος (áphatos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(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

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dumbness idem, page 256.
- speechlessness idem, page 800.
- swoon idem, page 849.

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