paralysis

Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύειν (paralúein, “to disable on one side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + λύειν (lúein, “loosen”). Doublet of palsy.

• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹæləsəs/

paralysis (countable and uncountable, plural paralyses)

1. (pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of person's body, such as one or more limbs.
2. A state of being inable to act.

   The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.

• paralyse/paralyze
• paralytic

• paraplegia
• quadriplegia

• paralysis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• paralysis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• paralysis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈra.ly.sis/, [paˈra.lʏ.sɪs]

paralysis f (genitive paralysis); third declension

1. paralysis, palsy

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

• English: palsy, paralysis

• paralysis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paralysis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette