podiatry
Meaningfoot healing
Common meaning: care and treatment of the feet
- poda footLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1261 · scan
- iatra healer, doctorLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 374 · scan
- ynoun ending: study, state or act
‘a foot’ + ‘a healer, doctor’ → podiatry
Journey through time
Neither part’s path through time is traced in our sources yet; each root is shown from its dictionary entry.
- pod — Greek πούς, ποδός “a foot” (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 πούς ‘a foot’ + Greek ἰατρός ‘a healer, doctor’.
Did you know (Greek pous, podos,…): our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), entry πούς, p. 1261 · 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
- πούς, ποδός Greek “a foot”
- ἰατρός Greek “a healer, doctor”
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