Where does “neuropsychiatric” come from?
Neuropsychiatric derives from English psychiatry, influenced by French -ique and French -ie, from Latin -ia and Proto-Indo-European -kos.
neuropsychiatric (English): Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry;...
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry;...
Ancestry of “neuropsychiatric”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | psychiatric | Of, or relating to, psychiatry |
| 2 | English | psychiatry | The branch of medicine that subjectively... |
| 3 | French | psychiatrie | psychiatry |
| 4 | French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 5 | Middle French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 6 | Old French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 7 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |