dementia
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈmɛnʃə/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias or dementiae)
- (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
- Madness or insanity.
Derived terms
Translations
progressive decline in cognitive function
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madness or insanity
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See also
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdement(ː)iɑ/, [ˈde̞me̞n̪(t̪)ˌt̪iɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): de‧men‧ti‧a
Declension
| Inflection of dementia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | dementia | dementiat | ||
| genitive | dementian | dementioiden dementioitten | ||
| partitive | dementiaa | dementioita | ||
| illative | dementiaan | dementioihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | dementia | dementiat | ||
| accusative | nom. | dementia | dementiat | |
| gen. | dementian | |||
| genitive | dementian | dementioiden dementioitten dementiainrare | ||
| partitive | dementiaa | dementioita | ||
| inessive | dementiassa | dementioissa | ||
| elative | dementiasta | dementioista | ||
| illative | dementiaan | dementioihin | ||
| adessive | dementialla | dementioilla | ||
| ablative | dementialta | dementioilta | ||
| allative | dementialle | dementioille | ||
| essive | dementiana | dementioina | ||
| translative | dementiaksi | dementioiksi | ||
| abessive | dementiatta | dementioitta | ||
| instructive | — | dementioin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Further reading
- “dementia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈmen.ti.a/, [d̪eːˈmɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈmen.t͡si.a/, [d̪eˈmɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēmentia | dēmentiae |
| Genitive | dēmentiae | dēmentiārum |
| Dative | dēmentiae | dēmentiīs |
| Accusative | dēmentiam | dēmentiās |
| Ablative | dēmentiā | dēmentiīs |
| Vocative | dēmentia | dēmentiae |
Descendants
References
- “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dementia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dementia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dementia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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