dyslexia

dys- +‎ lexis +‎ -ia. Via learned borrowing from New Latin dyslexia, produced from Latin dys- + lexis, -ia, a calque of German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) expressing the idea of difficulty, and λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), the root chosen due to apparent semantic conflation of Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”) and Latin legō (“to read”). Cf. the root of lexicon, Medieval Latin lexicon, Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “dictionary”, literally “[book of] words”).

• (US) enPR: dĭs-lĕkʹsē-ə, IPA^(key): /dɪsˈlɛk.si.ə/

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dyslexia (countable and uncountable, plural dyslexias)

1. (neurology, pathology) A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.

• word-blindness

• alexia
• dyscalculia
• dysgraphia

• dyslexia at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “dyslexia, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dyslexia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 1811, column 1.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “dyslexia”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1811, column 1.

• lysdexia

New Latin produced from dys- +‎ lexis +‎ -ia, a calque of German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) expressing the idea of difficulty, and λέξις (léxis, “speech”; “diction”; “word”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dysˈlek.si.a/, [d̪ʏs̠ˈɫ̪ɛks̠iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /disˈlek.si.a/, [d̪izˈlɛksiä]

dyslexia f (genitive dyslexiae); first declension (New Latin)

1. dyslexia

First-declension noun.

• → English: dyslexia (learned)

dyslexia f (genitive singular dyslexie, nominative plural dyslexie, genitive plural dyslexií)

1. (neurology, pathology) dyslexia

• dyslexia in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk