🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

dyslexique

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dis·lɛk.zik

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dyslexic/dɪsˈlɛk.sɪk/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il est dyslexique mais il a développé d'excellentes compétences en communication orale."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or affected by dyslexia, a learning disorder characterized by difficulty in reading, spelling, and interpreting words and symbols.

    "The teacher provided specialized materials to support dyslexic students in the classroom."
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who has dyslexia.

    "Many successful entrepreneurs and artists are dyslexics who have learned to leverage their unique cognitive strengths."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin, combining the Greek prefix 'dys-' meaning 'bad' or 'difficult' with 'lexicus', from Greek 'lexikos' relating to words, based on 'lexis' for speech or word. Coined in the late 19th century in the context of medical and psychological descriptions of reading difficulties.

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🇫🇷French → English

dyslexique

Transliteration: dis·lɛk.zik

"Il est dyslexique mais il a développé d'excellentes compétences en communication orale."

🇩🇪German → English

dyslexisch

Transliteration: dʏsˈlɛksɪʃ

"Die Schule bietet spezielle Förderprogramme für dyslexische Kinder an."

🇮🇹Italian → English

dislessico

Transliteration: disˈlɛs.si.ko

"Gli studenti dislessici possono usufruire di strumenti compensativi durante gli esami."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

disléxico

Transliteration: disˈleksiko

"El profesor adaptó el examen para el alumno disléxico."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

disléxico

Transliteration: dizˈlɛ.si.ku

"Ela é disléxica e prefere audiolivros para estudar."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

डिसलेक्सिक

Transliteration: disleksik

Script: हिंदी देवनागरी

"डिसलेक्सिक बच्चों को पढ़ने में विशेष सहायता की आवश्यकता होती है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

读写困难的

Transliteration: dúxiě kùnnán de

Script: 中文汉字

"老师为读写困难的学生提供了更多的阅读时间。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

난독증의

Transliteration: nandokjeung-ui

Script: 한국어 한글

"난독증이 있는 아이들을 위한 특별 교재가 마련되어 있다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

ディスレクシアの

Transliteration: disurekusia no

Script: 日本語

"ディスレクシアの生徒のために、フォントの工夫がなされています。"

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