"aphonia" meaning in English

See aphonia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /eɪˈfəʊ.ni.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈ-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /eɪˈfoʊ.ni.ə/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-aphonia.wav [Southern-England] Forms: aphonias [plural], aphony [alternative, dated]
Rhymes: -əʊniə Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin aphōnia, from Ancient Greek ἀφωνία (aphōnía, “speechlessness”). By surface analysis, a- + -phonia. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|NL.|aphōnia}} Learned borrowing from New Latin aphōnia, {{der|en|grc|ἀφωνία||speechlessness}} Ancient Greek ἀφωνία (aphōnía, “speechlessness”), {{surf|en|a-|-phonia}} By surface analysis, a- + -phonia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} aphonia (countable and uncountable, plural aphonias)
  1. (medicine) Loss of voice; the inability to speak. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: aphonic Translations (loss of voice): ἀφωνία (aphōnía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), afonia [feminine] (Catalan), afoni [common-gender] (Danish), afonio (Esperanto), afoonia (Estonian), afonia (Finnish), aphonie [feminine] (French), afonía [feminine] (Galician), აფონია (aponia) (Georgian), Aphonie [feminine] (German), Stimmlosigkeit [feminine] (German), Stimmverlust [masculine] (German), αφωνία (afonía) [feminine] (Greek), afónia (Hungarian), senvoceso (Ido), afonia [feminine] (Italian), afoni [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), afoni [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), afonia [feminine] (Polish), bezgłos [masculine] (Polish), afonia [feminine] (Portuguese), afonie [feminine] (Romanian), афони́я (afoníja) [feminine] (Russian), afonía [feminine] (Spanish), afoni [common-gender] (Swedish), بطلان صوت (butlān-e-saut) [masculine] (Urdu), فقد الصوت (faqd-ul-saut) [masculine] (Urdu)

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      "word": "senvoceso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afonia"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "afoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "afoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afonia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bezgłos"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afonia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afonie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "afoníja",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "афони́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afonía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "afoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "lang_code": "ur",
      "roman": "butlān-e-saut",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "بطلان صوت"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "lang_code": "ur",
      "roman": "faqd-ul-saut",
      "sense": "loss of voice",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فقد الصوت"
    }
  ],
  "word": "aphonia"
}

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