• (UK) apnoea
• (obsolete) apnœa

From a- +‎ -pnea, from the New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia), formed from ἀ- (a-, “absence of”) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breathing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæp.ni.ə/

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• Hyphenation: ap‧ne‧a

apnea (countable and uncountable, plural apneas)

1. (pathology) The cessation of breathing, most often in reference to transient instances thereof during sleep.

• asphyxia

• hypopnea

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• eupnea

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “apnea”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• paean, pæan

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əbˈne.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [abˈne.a]

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ap‧ne‧a

apnea f (plural apnees)

1. (pathology) apnea, (UK) apnoea
2. (sports) freediving / free-diving / free diving

• “apnea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Learned borrowing from New Latin apnoea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpneɑ/, [ˈɑ̝pne̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑpneɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ap‧ne‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): ap‧nea

apnea

1. apnea, (UK) apnoea

• “apnea”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• apean, nepaa

From New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia).

apnea f (plural apneas)

1. apnea, (UK) apnoea
2. (sports) freediving / free-diving / free diving

• apneísta
• apnea do sono

• hipopnea

• “apnea”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From English apnea, from the New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia), formed from ἀ- (a-, “absence of”) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breathing”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈap̚nɛa̯]
• Hyphenation: ap‧nèa

apnea (plural apnea-apnea)

1. (emergency medicine) apnea; apnoea

   Synonyms: apneu, henti napas

• “apnea”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /aˈpnɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: a‧pnè‧a

apnea f (plural apnee)

1. apnea/apnoea
2. freediving

• apneista
• apneistico

• napea, peana

Borrowed from New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia).

• IPA^(key): /abˈnea/ [aβ̞ˈne.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: ap‧ne‧a

apnea f (plural apneas)

1. apnea
2. (sports) free-diving

• “apnea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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