Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /orθópnya/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /orθópnya/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oɾθópnia/

Noun

ὀρθόπνοια • ‎(orthópnoia) f ‎(genitive ὀρθοπνοίας); first declension

1. upright breathing, orthopnoea, a type of asthma which only admits breathing in an upright posture
   • Hippocrates, Prognostics 45
   • Hippocrates, On Regimen in Acute Diseases 386

Inflection

Descendants

• English: orthopnoea

References

• ὀρθόπνοια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «ὀρθόπνοια» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• LSJ 8th edition