catatonia

catatonia

English

Alternative forms

• catatony (dated)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kætəˈtoʊniə/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• catatonic

 

Translations

severe psychiatric condition

Armenian: կատատոնիա (hy) (katatonia) Chinese: Mandarin: 緊張症／紧张症 (jǐnzhāngzhèng) Czech: katatonie f Danish: katatoni c Dutch: catatonie (nl) f Estonian: katatoonia Finnish: katatonia (fi) French: catatonie (fr) f German: Katatonie (de) f Greek: κατατονία (el) f (katatonía) Hungarian: katatónia Icelandic: geðstjarfi m Italian: catatonia (it) f Japanese: 緊張病 (きんちょうびょう, kinchōbyō) Korean: 긴장증 (ginjangjeung) Lithuanian: katatonija f Polish: katatonia Portuguese: catatonia f Romanian: catatonie f Russian: кататони́я (ru) f (katatoníja) Serbo-Croatian: katatonija (sh) f, кататонија f Spanish: catatonia (es) f Swedish: katatoni (sv) c Turkish: katatoni (tr) Uzbek: katatoniya

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Italian

Etymology

From cata- +‎ -tonia.

Noun

catatonia f (plural catatonie)

1. catatonia

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.toˈni.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.toˈni.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.toˈni.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.tɐ.tuˈni.ɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧ta‧to‧ni‧a

Noun

catatonia f (plural catatonias)

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

catatonia f (plural catatonias)

1. catatonia

Further reading

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