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
- The branch of medicine that subjectively...
Ancestry of “psychiatry”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | psychiatrie | psychiatry |
| 2 | French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 3 | Middle French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 4 | Old French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 5 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates 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
- psychiatrize
- orthopsychiatric
- orthopsychiatrist
- ecopsychiatry