atrophy

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• Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈɛt.ɹə.fi/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 T R AH0 F IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “to fatten”). Equivalent to a- + -trophy.

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: atrofi — reduced functionality
• Arabic: ضُمُور (ḍumūr) — reduced functionality
• Arabic: تَلَاشٍ (talāšin) — reduced functionality
• Azerbaijani: atrofiya — reduced functionality
• Belarusian: атрафі́я (atrafíja) — reduced functionality
• Bulgarian: атрофия (atrofija) — reduced functionality
• Catalan: atròfia — reduced functionality
• Chinese Mandarin: 萎縮 /萎缩 (wěisuō) — reduced functionality
• Chinese Mandarin: 退化 (tuìhuà) — reduced functionality
• Czech: zakrnění — reduced functionality
• Danish: atrofi — reduced functionality
• Dutch: atrofie — reduced functionality
• Esperanto: atrofio — reduced functionality
• Faroese: svinn — reduced functionality
• Finnish: atrofia — reduced functionality
• Finnish: atropia — reduced functionality
• Finnish: surkastuma — reduced functionality
• Finnish: surkastuminen — reduced functionality
• French: atrophie — reduced functionality
• German: Atrophie — reduced functionality
• Greek: ατροφία (atrofía) — reduced functionality
• Icelandic: rýrnun — reduced functionality
• Indonesian: atrofi — reduced functionality
• Italian: atrofia — reduced functionality
• Japanese: 萎縮 (ishuku) — reduced functionality
• Lithuanian: atrofija — reduced functionality
• Norwegian Bokmål: atrofi — reduced functionality
• Norwegian Nynorsk: atrofi — reduced functionality
• Polish: atrofia — reduced functionality
• Polish: zanik — reduced functionality
• Portuguese: atrofia — reduced functionality
• Romanian: atrofie — reduced functionality
• Romanian: atrofiere — reduced functionality
• Russian: атрофи́я (atrofíja) — reduced functionality
• Sicilian: atrufìa — reduced functionality
• Spanish: atrofia — reduced functionality
• Swedish: atrofi — reduced functionality
• Turkish: atrofi — reduced functionality
• Ukrainian: атрофі́я (atrofíja) — reduced functionality
• Arabic: ضَمُرَ (ḍamura) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Arabic: تَلَاشَى (talāšā) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Belarusian: атрафі́равацца (atrafíravacca) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Bulgarian: атрофирам (atrofiram) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Catalan: atrofiar-se — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Chinese Mandarin: 萎縮 /萎缩 (wěisuō) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Chinese Mandarin: 衰退 (shuāituì) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Czech: zakrnět — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Finnish: surkastua — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Finnish: näivettyä — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• French: atrophier — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• German: absterben — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Greek: ατροφώ (atrofó) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Greek: μαραίνομαι (maraínomai) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Ido: atrofiar — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Lithuanian: atrofuoti — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Lithuanian: atrofuotis — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Māori: whakamemeke — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Polish: zanikać — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Polish: zaniknąć — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Polish: słabnąć — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Portuguese: atrofiar — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Romanian: atrofia — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Russian: атрофи́роваться (atrofírovatʹsja) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Spanish: atrofiarse — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Swedish: atrofiera — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Turkish: körelmek — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Ukrainian: атрофува́тися (atrofuvátysja) — (intransitive) wither or waste away
• Chinese Mandarin: 使萎縮 /使萎缩 (shǐ wěisuō) — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Chinese Mandarin: 使衰弱 (shǐ shuāiruò) — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Finnish: näivettää — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Finnish: surkastuttaa — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Polish: osłabiać — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Polish: osłabić — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Russian: атрофи́ровать (atrofírovatʹ) — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Spanish: atrofiar — (transitive) cause to waste away
• Ukrainian: атрофува́ти (atrofuváty) — (transitive) cause to waste away