hemicrania

English

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Etymology

Late Latin hemicrania (pain in one half of the head), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrānía), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, hemi-, half) + κρανίον (kraníon, skull) (from whence also cranium).

Cognate to megrim and migraine, which also derive from the Latin.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪniə

Noun

hemicrania (countable and uncountable, plural hemicranias)

  1. (pathology) A headache affecting one side of the head.
    • 1993, The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, translation Burgin and O’Connor, Chapter 2, p. 17:
      “Gods, gods, why do you punish me? Yes, no doubt it is upon me again, again this terrible, invincible affliction … this hemicrania which grips half the head with pain … without remedy, without escape … I must try not to move my head. …”

Usage notes

Medical term, used in some literary contexts; not used in everyday speech. Instead more general headache or more specific migraine used.

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Latin

Alternative forms

  • hēmicrānium

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrānía).

Pronunciation

Noun

hēmicrānia f (genitive hēmicrāniae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) migraine, headache

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative hēmicrānia hēmicrāniae
Genitive hēmicrāniae hēmicrāniārum
Dative hēmicrāniae hēmicrāniīs
Accusative hēmicrāniam hēmicrāniās
Ablative hēmicrāniā hēmicrāniīs
Vocative hēmicrānia hēmicrāniae

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: micragna
    • Neapolitan: mengrània
    • Sicilian: micragna
  • Padanian:
    • Ligurian: mangrània
    • Piedmontese: milgran-a, mingran-a
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: migraigne
      • French: migraine (see there for further descendants)
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:

References

  • hemicrania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /e.mi.kɾaˈni.ɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /e.mi.kɾaˈni.a/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /i.mi.kɾɐˈni.ɐ/

  • Hyphenation: he‧mi‧cra‧ni‧a

Noun

hemicrania f (plural hemicranias)

  1. (pathology) hemicrania (a headache affecting one side of the head)
    Synonym: enxaqueca
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