-phonia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin ‑phōnia, from Ancient Greek ‑φωνία (‑phōnía).[1] By surface analysis, -phone +‎ -ia. Doublet of -phony.

Suffix

-phonia

  1. (medicine) Forms nouns describing a condition related to production of voice or reaction to sound.
  2. (chiefly obsolete) Alternative form of -phony.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -phonia
aphonia
autophonia
cacophonia
diplophonia
dysarthrophonia
dysphonia
euphonia
hypophonia
megaphonia
misophonia
mogiphonia
oxyphonia
paraphonia
presbyphonia
puberphonia
rhinophonia
schizophonia
symphonia
trachyphonia
triplophonia
tympanophonia
xenophonia

References

  1. ^ “-phonia, comb. form”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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