dyslexia

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• dĭs-lĕkʹsē-ə
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Learned borrowing from French dyslexie and/or German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from dys- + lexis + -ia, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) + λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), from Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to collect, gather; to speak”). The term was coined with λέξις (léxis) being taken to mean "reading," likely due to semantic conflation of Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”) and Latin legō (“to read”). By surface analysis, dys + lex(is) + -ia.

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: disleksie — learning disability
• Arabic: عُسْرُ ٱلْقِرَاءَة (ʕusru l-qirāʔa) — learning disability
• Asturian: dislexa — learning disability
• Basque: dislexia — learning disability
• Catalan: dislèxia — learning disability
• Chinese Mandarin: 失讀症 /失读症 (shīdúzhèng) — learning disability
• Chinese Mandarin: 閱讀障礙 /阅读障碍 (yuèdú zhàng'ài) — learning disability
• Cornish: gerdhelni — learning disability
• Czech: dyslexie — learning disability
• Danish: ordblindhed — learning disability
• Danish: dysleksi — learning disability
• Dutch: dyslexie — learning disability
• Esperanto: disleksio — learning disability
• Estonian: düsleksia — learning disability
• Estonian: vaeglugemine — learning disability
• Faroese: orðblindi — learning disability
• Finnish: lukivaikeus — learning disability
• Finnish: dysleksia — learning disability
• French: dyslexie — learning disability
• Galician: dislexia — learning disability
• Georgian: დისლექსია (disleksia) — learning disability
• German: Legasthenie — learning disability
• German: Dyslexie — learning disability
• Greek: δυσλεξία (dyslexía) — learning disability
• Haitian Creole: disleksi — learning disability
• Hebrew: דִּיסְלֶקְצִיָּה (disléktsya) — learning disability
• Hungarian: diszlexia — learning disability
• Icelandic: lesblinda — learning disability
• Indonesian: disleksia — learning disability
• Irish: disléicse — learning disability
• Italian: dislessia — learning disability
• Japanese: 失読症 (shitsudokushō) — learning disability
• Japanese: ディスレクシア (disurekushia) — learning disability
• Korean: 난독증 (nandokjeung) — learning disability
• Northern Kurdish: dîsleksiye — learning disability
• Latin: dyslexia — learning disability
• Latvian: disleksija — learning disability
• Malay: disleksia — learning disability
• Manx: neulhaihderys — learning disability
• Māori: tīpaopao kupu — learning disability
• Norwegian Bokmål: dysleksi — learning disability
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dysleksi — learning disability
• Polish: dysleksja — learning disability
• Portuguese: dislexia — learning disability
• Punjabi: ਡਿਸਲੇਕਸੀਆ (ḍislekasīā) — learning disability
• Romanian: dislexie — learning disability
• Russian: дислекси́я (disleksíja) — learning disability
• Scottish Gaelic: doille-fhaclan — learning disability
• Serbo-Croatian: дислѐксија — learning disability
• Serbo-Croatian: dislèksija — learning disability
• Slovak: dyslexia — learning disability
• Spanish: dislexia — learning disability
• Swedish: dyslexi — learning disability
• Swedish: ordblindhet — learning disability
• Tamil: டிஸ்லெக்சியா (ṭislekciyā) — learning disability
• Turkish: disleksi — learning disability
• Ukrainian: дислексія (dysleksija) — learning disability
• Vietnamese: chứng khó đọc — learning disability
• Welsh: dyslecsia — learning disability