Etymology

aphonia

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Today it means: Loss of voice; the inability to speak. Full definition →

New Latin aphōnia ← Ancient Greek ἀφωνία
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀφωνία“speechlessness”
  2. New Latin · learned borrowing fromaphōnia
  3. English todayaphonia

Learned borrowing from New Latin aphōnia, from Ancient Greek ἀφωνία (aphōnía, “speechlessness”). By surface analysis, a- + -phonia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.