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anodyne

Meaningpainless

Common meaning: pain-easing

Other meanings: bland

‘not, without (Greek ἀ-/ἀν-)’ + ‘pain’ → anodyne

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√AD‘eat’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 9, p. 730 · scan
  2. Greekὀδύνη‘pain’
  3. Latinanodynus
  4. Englishanodyne‘pain-easing’ · today

an- also in: anomalyanosmiaanecdoteanalgesicanonymous

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Greek ὀδύνη ‘pain’.

Roots

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