trauma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔː.mə/, /ˈtɹaʊ.mə/

Rhymes: -ɔːmə, -aʊmə

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔ.mə/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒ.mə/
• (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑ.mə/

Noun

trauma (countable and uncountable, plural traumas or traumata)

1. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:

     Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

3. An event that causes great distress.

Anagrams

• Murata, Tamura, matura

Noun

trauma m (plural traumes)

1. trauma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”) via German Trauma.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraʊ̯ma/

Noun

trauma n

1. trauma

References

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

trauma n (plural trauma's or traumata, diminutive traumaatje n)

1. trauma

Etymology

< Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”).

Noun

trauma

1. trauma

Anagrams

• maarut, murtaa

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûma, “wound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʀoma]

Noun

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. (medicine) trauma (a localised injury produced by an external action)
2. (psychology and psychoanalysis, elliptical use for trauma psychique) psychic trauma

References

• “trauma” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

Noun

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. an emotional wound
2. (medicine) trauma; serious physical injury

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

Noun

trauma m (plural traumi)

1. trauma

Anagrams

• matura, murata

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -awma

Noun

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. trauma (emotional wound)
2. trauma (event that causes great distress)
3. (medicine) trauma (serious injury to the body)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trǎuma/
• Hyphenation: tra‧u‧ma

Noun

tràuma f (Cyrillic spelling тра̀ума)

1. trauma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɾa̠w.ma̠]

Noun

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. (medicine, psychology) trauma

Anagrams

• mutara
• mutará