catatonia

• catatony (dated)

From international scientific vocabulary, from German Katatonie, from New Latin catatonia, from a Greek word meaning to stretch tight. By surface analysis, cata- +‎ tone +‎ -ia.

• IPA^(key): /kætəˈtoʊniə/

catatonia (usually uncountable, plural catatonias)

1. A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
2. (informal) A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.
   • 1998, David Drake, Thomas T. Thomas, Crisis of Empire Book I: An Honorable Defense:

     “Relay that!” Thwaite shouted. Somewhere on the bridge a hand closed over a relay and dropped the AIDs into an electronic catatonia.

From cata- +‎ -tonia.

catatonia f (plural catatonie)

1. catatonia

• Hyphenation: ca‧ta‧to‧ni‧a

catatonia f (plural catatonias)

1. (psychiatry) catatonia (a severe condition characterised by a tendency to remain in a rigid state)

• IPA^(key): /kataˈtonja/ [ka.t̪aˈt̪o.nja]
• Rhymes: -onja
• Syllabification: ca‧ta‧to‧nia

catatonia f (plural catatonias)

1. catatonia

• “catatonia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014