Where does “inpatient” come from?

Inpatient comes from English in and English patient, where patient derives from Old Englishinn, Latin uncia, Latin pati meaning to suffer, and Proto-Indo-European steh₂- meaning to stand.

inpatient (English): A patient whose treatment needs at least one...

Definitions

  1. A patient whose treatment needs at least one...

Ancestry of “inpatient”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishin-in, into, towards, within; in, into; Used with...
2Middle Englishin-—
3Old Englishin-in, into; on, upon; internal, positioned on the...
4Old Englishinin; Alternative form of inn
5Proto-West Germanic*in—
6Proto-Germanicinin; into
7Proto-Indo-Europeanénin

Words derived from “inpatient”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European én →Every word from Proto-Germanic in →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *in →