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Where does “immunodeficiency” come from?

Immunodeficiency comes from English immunity and deficiency, which derives from French déficit and Latin deficit, meaning "it is lacking."

immunodeficiency (English): A depletion in the body's natural immune system,...

Definitions

  1. A depletion in the body's natural immune system,...

Ancestry of “immunodeficiency”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdeficiencyInadequacy or incompleteness; An insufficiency,...
2EnglishdeficientLacking something essential; "often construed...
3Latindēficiens—
4Latindeficerepresent active infinitive of dēficiō;...
5Latindefectusfailure; absence; weakness, failing, defect
6LatindeficioI withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,...
7Latinfaciō—
8Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
9Latin-tōrius—
10Latin-tor-er
11Proto-Italic-tōr—
12Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
13Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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