| dyslalia |
| Definition: A speech impairment that is caused by either defective speech organs or impaired motor nerves. |
| Etymology: The word was coined by combining the Greek dys, bad, with lalia, a speaking. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: Its first citation is from 1878: "The latter [lalopathia] thus includes *dysarthrias (including dyslalias and dysphasias)." (Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 613) |