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