dyspepsia
Meaningbad digestion
Common meaning: indigestion
- dysbad, hard (Greek dus-)
- pepsto soften; to digestLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 440 (approximate) · scan
- ianoun ending (Latin/Greek) for a field or condition
‘bad, hard (Greek dus-)’ + ‘to soften’ → dyspepsia
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 πέπτω ‘to soften; to digest’.
Roots
- πέπτω Greek “to soften; to digest”
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