different between paralytic vs paraplegic

English

Alternative forms

• paralytick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ???l?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Noun

paralytic (plural paralytics)

1. Someone suffering from paralysis.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Quoth I to myself, "Haply this Shaykh is of those who were wrecked in the ship and hath made his way to this island." So I drew near to him and saluted him, and he returned my salam by signs, but spoke not; and I said to him, "O nuncle mine, what causeth thee to sit here?" He shook his head and moaned and signed to me with his hand as who should say, "Take me on thy shoulders and carry me to the other side of the well-channel." And quoth I in my mind, "I will deal kindly with him and do what he desireth; it may be I shall win me a reward in Heaven for he may be a paralytic."

2. A drug that produces paralysis.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:paralytic.

Translations

Adjective

paralytic (comparative more paralytic, superlative most paralytic)

1. Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

     the cold, shaking, paralytic hand

2. Pertaining to paralysis.
3. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, slang) Very drunk.

Synonyms

• (paralysed): frozen, immobilized
• (pertaining to paralysis.):
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

para- +? -plegic

Pronunciation

• (General American), IPA^(key): /?p????plid???k/
• Rhymes: -i?d??k

Adjective

paraplegic (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia.

Translations

Noun

paraplegic (plural paraplegics)

1. A person who suffers from paraplegia.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French paraplégique

Adjective

paraplegic m or n (feminine singular paraplegic?, masculine plural paraplegici, feminine and neuter plural paraplegice)

1. paraplegic

Declension