dyslexia

noun
/dɪsˈlɛk.si.ə/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French dyslexie and/or German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from dys- + lexis + -ia, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) + λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), from Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to collect, gather; to speak”). The term was coined with λέξις (léxis) being taken to mean "reading," likely due to semantic conflation of Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”) and Latin legō (“to read”). By surface analysis, dys + lex(is) + -ia.

  1. derived from *leg- — “to collect, gather; to speak
  2. derived from λέγω — “to speak
  3. derived from δυσ-
  4. derived from Dyslexie
  5. learned borrowing from dyslexie

Definitions

  1. A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dyslexia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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