amimia

See also: amimią

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?]

Noun

amimia (countable and uncountable, plural amimias)

  1. (medicine) inability to express oneself using gestures
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).

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Polish

Etymology

From a- +‎ Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) +‎ -ia.[1] First attested in 1879.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aˈmi.mja/
  • Audio 1(file)
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  • Rhymes: -imja
  • Syllabification: a‧mi‧mia

Noun

amimia f

  1. (pathology) amimia

Declension
Declension of amimia
singular
nominative amimia
genitive amimii
dative amimii
accusative amimię
instrumental amimią
locative amimii
vocative amimio
adjective
adverb
noun

References
  1. Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “amimia”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. Adolf Kussmaul (1879) Zboczenia mowy : próba patologii mowy : przekład dzieła: Die Störungen der Sprache, Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache‎ (in Polish), page V

Further reading
  • amimia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • amimia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.miˈmi.ɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.miˈmi.a/

  • Hyphenation: a‧mi‧mi‧a

Noun

amimia f (uncountable)

  1. (psychiatry) amimia (inability to express oneself using gestures)
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