-pathy

DEFINITION of -pathy

forms nouns: path--y - disease

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ETYMOLOGY of -pathy

greek

Component	Origin	Meaning
path- / -y	Greek πάθος (pathos), from πάσχειν (paschein)	“disease,” “suffering,” “disorder” — Noun-forming compound suffix — “disease of (a named structure or system)”

The word entered English in the 1640s as pathos (noun), borrowed from French pathos, from Late Latin pathos, from Greek πάθος (pathos) — literally “suffering” or “experience.” The medical suffix form -pathy appeared in the 1860s (e.g., neuropathy). The root pathos (“suffering, disease”) connects -pathy to the entire disease and pathology suffixes: neuropathy (neuro- + pathy $\to$ disease of the nerves), myopathy (myo- + pathy $\to$ disease of muscle), and cardiomyopathy (cardio- + myo- + pathy $\to$ disease of the heart muscle). The compound suffix -pathy is extremely productive across nearly all medical specialties: e.g., osteopathy, nephropathy, hepatopathy, neurotoxicopathy, and psychopathy.

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RELATED TERMS to -pathy

-pathy	disease	-	-
-iasis	YES	abnormal condition	abnormal presence of
nos-	YES	illness	-
-oma	YES	tumor	-
path-	YES	-	-

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DERIVATIONS of -pathy

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