paediatric
Meaningchild healing
Common meaning: to do with children's medicine
- paeda childLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1109 · scan
- iatra healer, doctorLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 374 · scan
- icadjective ending: relating to
‘a child’ + ‘a healer, doctor’ → paediatric
Journey through time
Neither part’s path through time is traced in our sources yet; each root is shown from its dictionary entry.
- paed — Greek παῖς, παιδός “a child” (dictionary form; path not traced)
- iatr — Greek ἰατρός “a healer, doctor” (dictionary form; path not traced)
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 παῖς ‘a child’ + Greek ἰατρός ‘a healer, doctor’.
Did you know (Greek pais, paidos,…): our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), entry παῖς, p. 1109 · dictionary scan
Did you know (Greek iatros, "a…): our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry ἰατρός, p. 374 · dictionary scan
Roots
- παῖς, παιδός Greek “a child”
- ἰατρός Greek “a healer, doctor”
Related words
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