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. By surface analysis, cata- +‎ tone +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kætəˈtoʊniə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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 (hu)
• Icelandic: geðstjarfi m
• Italian: catatonia (it) f
• Japanese: 緊張病 (ja) (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

Italian

Etymology

From cata- +‎ -tonia.

Noun

catatonia f (plural catatonie)

1. catatonia

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)

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10