-ia (Greek > Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; state of, condition of, quality of; act of)
A noun suffix that has restricted applications in the following fields
- Names of countries; such as, Australia, Tasmania, et al.
- Names of diseases; such as, hydrophobia, mania, hyperalgia, hysteria, pneumonia, et al.
- Names of chemical alkaloids; such as, aconitia, atropia, conia, morphia, strychinia, et al.
- Names of flowers from the names of the discoverer or the person who introduced the flower; such as, Dahlia, Wisteria, Fuchsia, Zinnia, et al.
- Names of classes and orders in botany and zoology; such as, Mammalia, Reptilia, Amphibia, et al.
- Names of collective nouns; such as, academia, militaria, suburbia, etc.
- Names of things relating to something; such as, pedodontia, orthodontia, psychedelia, telesthesia, et al.
- Plurals of Latin and Greek nouns that end with -ion, -ium, -um; such as, paraphernalia, regalia, saturnalia, Mammalia, etc.
alexia
1. A loss of the ability to understand written language, inability to read because of brain lesions; word blindness.
2. An acquired disorder in reading ability; to be differentiated from dyslexia, which is a developmental problem in reading.
Strictly speaking, lexus and its derivatives refer to speech, not reading, because they are based on the Greek verb legein, "to speak", and not on the Latin verb legere, "to read". Current usage appears to reflect an etymological error, that has been accepted for so long that to insist on correcting it would be useless.
—Psychiatric Dictionary, 7th Ed., Robert J. Campbell, M.D.;
Oxford University Press, 1996; New York.
Amphibia
1. A being that lives either in water or on land, or is equally at home in either element.
2. A class of quadruped vertebrates containing frogs, newts, salamanders, toads, caecilians, and many fossil groups.
They have skin glandular without epidermal scales, feathers, or hairs with a tail present primitively but lost in some groups. They have limbs or girdles reduced or absent in some forms. Eggs are anamniotic, primitively laid in water with external fertilization. Tadpole larvae posses gills and open gill slits. Ovoviviparity and viviparity are exhibited by some species and these vertebrates contain a single extant subclass called Lissamphibia. anemia
1. A lack of red blood cells.
2. A condition in which a person's blood does not have enough red corpuscles.
begonia
diptheria
dyschezia
Painful or difficult bowel movements.
genitalia
Germania
1. An ancient region of central Europe north of the Danube and east of the Rhine which was never under Roman control.
2. A part of the Roman Empire west of the Rhine River corresponding to present-day northeast France, sections of Belgium, and the Netherlands.
India
Manchuria
morphia
paraphernalia
pedodontia
pneumonia
poinsettia
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