hemicrania
English
Alternative forms
- hemicrany (dated)
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)
- (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. …”
- 1993, The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, translation Burgin and O’Connor, Chapter 2, p. 17:
Usage notes
Medical term, used in some literary contexts; not used in everyday speech. Instead more general headache or more specific migraine used.
Derived terms
Translations
a headache affecting one side of the head
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See also
Latin
Alternative forms
- hēmicrānium
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrānía).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /heː.miˈkraː.ni.a/, [heːmɪˈkräːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.miˈkra.ni.a/, [emiˈkräːniä]
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Ligurian: mangrània
- Piedmontese: milgran-a, mingran-a
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: migraigne
- French: migraine (see there for further descendants)
- Old French: migraigne
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: migraña
- Borrowings:
- → English: hemicrania
- → Galician: hemicrania
- → Italian: emicrania
- → Portuguese: hemicrania
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)
- (pathology) hemicrania (a headache affecting one side of the head)
- Synonym: enxaqueca
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