dyspnea
Meaning
Difficult or laboured respiration; shortness of breath.
Synonyms
Hyphenated as
dys‧pnea
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɪspˈniː.ə/
Etymology
Variant spelling of dyspnoea, a learned borrowing from Latin dyspnoea (“difficulty breathing”), from Ancient Greek δῠ́σπνοιᾰ (dúspnoia, “difficulty breathing, shortness of breath”), from δῠ́σπνοος (dúspnoos, “short of breath, breathing with difficulty”, adjective) (also δῠ́σπνους (dúspnous) by contraction) + -ῐᾰ (-ia, suffix forming abstract nouns). Δῠ́σπνοος (Dúspnoos) is derived from δῠσ- (dus-, prefix meaning ‘bad; difficult, hard; unfortunate’) + πνέω (pnéō, “to blow; to breathe”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; to pant”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as dys- (prefix meaning ‘abnormal; difficult; disease’) + -pnea (suffix meaning ‘breathing, respiration’).
Bookmark this
Improve your pronunciation
Start learning English with learnfeliz.
Practice speaking and memorizing "dyspnea" and many other words and sentences in English.
Go to our English course page
Notes