# dyslexia

Pronunciation: US say "dis-LEK-see-uh" /dɪsˈlɛk.si.ə/; UK

## Noun

1. A learning disability marked by ongoing difficulty with reading and writing.
   - Simple: A learning difficulty that makes reading, writing, and spelling hard.
   - _A diagnosis of dyslexia in third grade finally explained his struggles with spelling._
   - _Teachers took training to support students whose dyslexia slows their reading._

## Origin

A learned borrowing from French dyslexie and/or German Dyslexie, coined by the German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from dys- + lexis + -ia, ultimately from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) plus λέξις (léxis, "word, diction"), from λέγω (légō, "to speak"). Here λέξις was taken to mean "reading," likely through a confusion of Greek λέγω ("to speak") and Latin legō ("to read").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dyslexia (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).