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Where does “psychiatry” come from?

Psychiatry comes from French psychiatrie, formed with the French suffix -ie (from Latin -ia, from Ancient Greek -ία, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -h₂).

psychiatry (English): The branch of medicine that subjectively...

Definitions

  1. The branch of medicine that subjectively...

Ancestry of “psychiatry”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpsychiatriepsychiatry
2French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
3Middle French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
4Old French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
5Latin-iaUsed to form a feminine abstract noun, usually...
6Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
7Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
8Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “psychiatry”

  • psychiatric
  • psychiatrist
  • neuropsychiatric
  • psychiatrically
  • neuropsychiatry
  • nonpsychiatric
  • neuropsychiatrist
  • antipsychiatry
  • telepsychiatry
  • biopsychiatric
  • psychiatrization
  • biopsychiatry
  • antipsychiatric
  • nonpsychiatrist
  • antipsychiatrist
  • neuropsychiatrically
  • ethnopsychiatric
  • orthopsychiatry
  • medicopsychiatric
  • postpsychiatric
  • orthopsychiatric
  • orthopsychiatrist
  • psychiatrize
  • unpsychiatric
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