traumata
SayTRAW-muh-tuhUS/ˈtɹɔmətə/UK/ˈtɹɔːmətə/
- 1Plural of trauma (rare and formal; traumas is far more common).
The emergency team handled multiple traumata in a single night.
Childhood traumata often surface in unexpected ways during therapy.
Note
The Greek plural, built like stigmata, and at home in clinical and psychological prose rather than everyday talk. Hugo Ziemssen's Handbook of Diseases of the Skin (1885) uses it for bodily injuries, while 1985 writing on analysis traces slips of the tongue to "infantile traumata." Steven Connor's The Book of Skin (2004) sets it beside stigmata in writing on hysteria. In ordinary English, traumas is the safer plural.
traumata is a form of trauma
trauma, noun: An emotional wound that produces lasting psychological injury. Full entry
- Spelling
- trauma → traumata: irregular plural (no -s)
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