Where does “acropathy” come from?

acropathy (English) comes from English acro, from English acrobatic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

acropathy (English): Any disease specific to the extremities

Definitions

  1. Any disease specific to the extremities

Ancestry of “acropathy”, step by step

acropathy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English acro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishacroof or pertaining to something that combines...
2EnglishacrobaticOf or pertaining to an acrobat; vigorously active
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English pathy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpathyA therapy
2English-pathysuffering, feeling; Damage to, disease of, or...
3English-yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives...
4Middle English-yDesignates an adjective, in many cases formed by...
5Old English-iġ-y, -ic
6Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
7Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én