aphasia 的詞源

在病理學中，"失去說話能力"，特別是由於腦部損傷或疾病，始於1867年，源自現代拉丁語 aphasia，來自希臘語 aphasia "無言"，這是一個抽象名詞，來自 a- "無"（參見 a- (3)）+ phasis "發言"，來自 phanai "說話"，與 phēmē "聲音，報告，謠言"有關（來自 PIE 詞根 *bha- (2) "說話，告訴，說"）。

APHASIA is the term which has recently been given to the loss of the faculty of articulate language, the organs of phonation and of articulation, as well as the intelligence, being unimpaired. The pathology of this affection is at the present time the subject of much discussion in the scientific world; the French Academy devoted several of their séances during the year 1865 to its special elucidation, and the Medical Journals of France and of our own country have lately contained a good deal of original matter bearing upon this obscure feature in cerebral pathology. [Frederic Bateman, M.D., "Aphasia," London, 1868]

失語症是最近給失去清晰語言能力的疾病命名的術語，而發音和發音的器官以及智力都沒有受損。這種疾病的病理學目前在科學界引起了大量的討論； 法國科學院在1865年的幾次 séances 中專門闡述了這個問題，而法國和我們國家的醫學期刊最近也包含了大量關於這個腦病理學中模糊特徵的原創內容。[Frederic Bateman, M.D., "Aphasia," London, 1868]