dementia

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɛnʃə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnʃə

dementia (usually uncountable, plural dementias or dementiae)

1. (pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

   • 2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In recent years some clinical trials involving potential dementia drugs have had disappointing setbacks.

2. Madness or insanity.

• amentia
• demented
• demential

• amentia
• Alzheimer's disease
• delirium

• Demetian, Mendaite, Mendieta, Tiedeman, matineed

Borrowed from Latin dementia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdement(ː)iɑ/, [ˈde̞me̞n̪(t̪̚)ˌt̪iɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): de‧men‧ti‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): de‧men‧tia

dementia

1. dementia

• “dementia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From dēment- +‎ -ia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈmɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈmɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]

dēmentia f (genitive dēmentiae); first declension

1. madness, insanity

First-declension noun.

dēmentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of dēmēns

• “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dementia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dementia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dementia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin