hypnosis

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• General-American: /hɪpˈnəʊ.sɪs/
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• General-American: /hɪpˈnoʊ.sɪs/
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• rhymes with -əʊsɪs
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• CMU ARPABET: HH IH0 P N OW1 S AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swep-der. Proto-Indo-European *supnós Proto-Hellenic *húpnos Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos) Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.? Ancient Greek -όω (-óō) Ancient Greek ὑπνόω (hupnóō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek ὕπνωσις (húpnōsis)lbor. English hypnosis From modern scholarly Ancient Greek ὕπνωσις (húpnōsis), which formation closes the derivational gap between the ancient words ὑπνόω (hupnóō, “I put to sleep”) and ὑπνωτικός (hupnōtikós, “sleep-inducing, soporific”). Ultimately traces back to ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَنْوِيم مَغْنَاطِيسِيّ (tanwīm maḡnāṭīsiyy) — trancelike state
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܘܼܠܵܥܵܐ ܡܲܓ݂ܢܵܛܝܼܣܵܝܵܐ (ṭullāˁā maḡnāṭīsāyā) — trancelike state
• Armenian: հիպնոս (hipnos) — trancelike state
• Bulgarian: хипноза (hipnoza) — trancelike state
• Catalan: hipnosi — trancelike state
• Chinese Mandarin: 催眠 (cuīmián) — trancelike state
• Czech: hypnóza — trancelike state
• Danish: hypnose — trancelike state
• Dutch: hypnose — trancelike state
• Esperanto: hipnoto — trancelike state
• Finnish: hypnoosi — trancelike state
• French: hypnose — trancelike state
• Galician: hipnose — trancelike state
• German: Hypnose — trancelike state
• Hebrew: היפנוזה (hipnóza) — trancelike state
• Hindi: सम्मोहन (sammohan) — trancelike state
• Hungarian: hipnózis — trancelike state
• Ido: hipnoto — trancelike state
• Ido: tranco — trancelike state
• Irish: hiopnóis — trancelike state
• Italian: ipnosi — trancelike state
• Japanese: 催眠 (saimin) — trancelike state
• Korean: 최면 (choemyeon) — trancelike state
• Latvian: hipnoze — trancelike state
• Lithuanian: hipnozė — trancelike state
• Mongolian: ховс (xovs) — trancelike state
• Norwegian Bokmål: hypnose — trancelike state
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hypnose — trancelike state
• Polish: hipnoza — trancelike state
• Portuguese: hipnose — trancelike state
• Russian: гипно́з (gipnóz) — trancelike state
• Sanskrit: सम्मोहन (sammohana) — trancelike state
• Spanish: hipnosis — trancelike state
• Swedish: hypnos — trancelike state