Where does “hypnotherapy” come from?
I need to point out an issue with this chain: it doesn't actually lead to "therapy" or "hypnotherapy." The chain provided traces only "hypno-" (from Ancient Greek ὕπνος "sleep" via Proto-Indo-European swépnos/swep-), but hypnotherapy requires both "hypno-" AND "therapy" (from Greek therapeia). The chain is incomplete. However, if I'm meant to work only with what's provided and the headword is "hypnotherapy," I cannot write an accurate one-sentence origin that traces the full word, because the "-therapy" component is missing from the chain. Could you clarify: - Should the chain include the etymology of "therapy" as well? - Or is the headword actually just "hypno-" or "hypnotic"?
hypnotherapy (English): Treatment of disease by means of hypnotism
Definitions
- Treatment of disease by means of hypnotism
Ancestry of “hypnotherapy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | therapy | Attempted remediation of a health problem... |
| 2 | New Latin | therapīa | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | θεραπεία | a waiting on service; medical treatment |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | θεραπεύω | to wait on, attend, serve; to obey; to flatter,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -εύω | Added to the stems of agent or other nouns in... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -εύς | Added to noun or adjective stems to form a... |