trauma

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔː.mə/, /ˈtɹaʊ.mə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɔ.mə/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑ.mə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːmə, -aʊmə

trauma (countable and uncountable, plural traumas or traumata)

1. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

   Synonym: insult

   • 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

3. An event that causes great distress.

• “trauma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• trauma in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “trauma”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Murata, Tamura, matura

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾaw.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾaw.ma]

trauma m (plural traumes)

1. trauma

• traumatitzar

• traumàtic

• “trauma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trauma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “trauma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trauma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from German Trauma, from Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûmă, “wound”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrau̯ma]

trauma n

1. trauma

• “trauma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “trauma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “trauma”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed internationalism, ultimately from Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûmă, “wound”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑu̯.maː/

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• Hyphenation: trau‧ma

trauma n (plural trauma's or traumata, diminutive traumaatje n)

1. trauma

• hoofdtrauma
• traumatisch
• traumatiseren
• traumatalogie

• → Indonesian: trauma

< Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûmă, “wound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɑu̯mɑ/, [ˈt̪rɑ̝u̯mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑumɑ
• Syllabification^(key): trau‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): trau‧ma

trauma

1. trauma

• “trauma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• maarut, murtaa

From the Ancient Greek τραῦμᾰ (traûmă, “wound”).

• IPA^(key): /tʁo.ma/

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. (medicine) trauma (a localised injury produced by an external action)
2. (psychology and psychoanalysis, elliptical use for trauma psychique) psychic trauma

   Synonym: traumatisme psychique

• trauma acoustique
• trauma auditif
• trauma parodontal
• trauma psychique
• trauma sonore

• “trauma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. an emotional wound
2. (medicine) trauma; serious physical injury

• traumático
• traumatismo
• traumatizar

From Dutch trauma, from Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrau̯ma]
• Hyphenation: trau‧ma

trauma

1. trauma:
   1. an event that causes great distress
   2. (psychology, psychiatry) an emotional wound leading to psychological injury
   3. (surgery, traumatology) any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident

      Synonym: rudapaksa

• “trauma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

trauma (plural traumas)

1. trauma

• traumatic

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraw.ma/
• Rhymes: -awma
• Hyphenation: tràu‧ma

trauma m (plural traumi)

1. trauma

• matura, murata, rumata

• IPA^(key): /ˈtræʉ̯.mɑ/

trauma n (definite singular traumaet, indefinite plural trauma, definite plural traumaa)

1. alternative form of traume

• IPA^(key): /²træʉ̯.mɑ/

trauma n

1. definite plural of traume

Borrowed from English trauma, from Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraw.ma/

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• Rhymes: -awma
• Syllabification: trau‧ma

trauma f

1. (medicine) trauma (serious injury to the body)

   Synonym: uraz

2. (psychology) trauma (emotional wound)

• trauma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trauma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

• Rhymes: -awmɐ
• Hyphenation: trau‧ma

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. trauma (emotional wound)
2. trauma (event that causes great distress)
3. (medicine) trauma (serious injury to the body)

   Synonym: traumatismo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /trǎuma/
• Hyphenation: tra‧u‧ma

tràuma f (Cyrillic spelling тра̀ума)

1. trauma

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾauma/ [ˈt̪ɾau̯.ma]
• Rhymes: -auma
• Syllabification: trau‧ma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

trauma m (plural traumas)

1. (medicine, psychology) trauma
2. injury; harm

   Synonym: traumatismo

trauma

1. inflection of traumar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “trauma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• mutara
• mutará

trauma n

1. a psychological trauma
2. (medicine) a physical trauma

• traumatisera (“traumatize”)
• traumatisk (“traumatic”)

• trauma in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trauma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trauma in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)