dementia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɪˈmɛnʃə/

Noun

dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias)

  1. (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
    • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
      Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
  2. Madness or insanity.

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

Noun

dementia

  1. dementia

Declension
Inflection of dementia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative dementia dementiat
genitive dementian dementioiden
dementioitten
partitive dementiaa dementioita
illative dementiaan dementioihin
singular plural
nominative dementia dementiat
accusative nom. dementia dementiat
gen. dementian
genitive dementian dementioiden
dementioitten
dementiainrare
partitive dementiaa dementioita
inessive dementiassa dementioissa
elative dementiasta dementioista
illative dementiaan dementioihin
adessive dementialla dementioilla
ablative dementialta dementioilta
allative dementialle dementioille
essive dementiana dementioina
translative dementiaksi dementioiksi
instructive — dementioin
abessive dementiatta dementioitta
comitative — dementioineen

Latin

Etymology

dement- +‎ -ia

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈmen.ti.a/, [deːˈmɛn.ti.a]

Noun

dēmentia f (genitive dēmentiae); first declension

  1. madness, insanity

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēmentia dēmentiae
Genitive dēmentiae dēmentiārum
Dative dēmentiae dēmentiīs
Accusative dēmentiam dēmentiās
Ablative dēmentiā dēmentiīs
Vocative dēmentia dēmentiae

Descendants
  • Portuguese: demência
  • Romanian: demență
  • Russian: деме́нция (deméncija)
  • Spanish: demencia

Adjective

dēmentia

  1. nominative neuter plural of dēmēns
  2. accusative neuter plural of dēmēns
  3. vocative neuter plural of dēmēns

References
  • dementia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dementia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dementia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • dementia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dementia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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