dislexia
See also: dislèxia
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin dyslexia.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiz.lekˈsi.ɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiʒ.lekˈsi.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiz.lekˈsi.a/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /diʒ.lɛˈksi.ɐ/
- Hyphenation: dis‧le‧xi‧a
Noun
dislexia f (plural dislexias)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dislexia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “dislexia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin dyslexia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /disˈleɡsja/ [d̪isˈleɣ̞.sja]
- Rhymes: -eɡsja
- Syllabification: dis‧le‧xia
Noun
dislexia f (plural dislexias)
- (neurology, psychiatry) dyslexia
- (figurative, colloquial, Internet slang) misunderstanding of a reading by a character
Related terms
Further reading
- “dislexia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025