neuralgia

From New Latin neuralgia, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, neur- +‎ -algia.

neuralgia (countable and uncountable, plural neuralgias)

1. (pathology, neurology) An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
2. (figurative) Acute emotional distress.
   • 2022 December 8, Philip Stephens, “Neuralgia clashes with exceptionalism in Northern Ireland”, in Financial Times‎^[1], retrieved 16 February 2023:

     A century later, the UK’s post-Brexit dispute with Brussels about Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements with the EU has stirred the same neuralgia.

   • 2022 December 26, Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, George Barros, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26”, in understandingwar.org‎^[2], Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 27 December 2022:

     Ukrainian strikes on legitimate military targets far in the Russian rear continue to be points of neuralgia for the Russian milblogger community.

• neuralgy
• neurodynia

• sciatica

• “neuralgia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “neuralgia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “neuralgia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Internationalism (see English neuralgia), ultimately from New Latin neuralgia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneu̯rɑlɡiɑ/, [ˈne̞u̯rɑ̝lˌɡiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): neu‧ral‧gi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): neu‧ral‧gia

neuralgia

1. (pathology, neurology) neuralgia

• “neuralgia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed from English neuralgia, from New Latin neuralgia, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

• IPA^(key): /nɛwˈral.ɡja/
• Rhymes: -alɡja
• Syllabification: neu‧ral‧gia

neuralgia f

1. (neurology, pathology) neuralgia (severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve)

   Synonyms: nerwoból, newralgia

• neuralgia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• neuralgia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: neu‧ral‧gi‧a

neuralgia f (plural neuralgias)

1. alternative form of nevralgia

From neuro- +‎ -algia.

• IPA^(key): /neuˈɾalxja/ [neu̯ˈɾal.xja]
• Rhymes: -alxja
• Syllabification: neu‧ral‧gia

neuralgia f (plural neuralgias)

1. (pathology, neurology) neuralgia

• “neuralgia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024