English
anankastic
Anankastic comes from Ancient Greek ἀναγκάζω ‘to force, to compel’, and goes back to ἀνάγκη.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνάγκη‘force, necessity’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναγκάζωanankázō‘to force, to compel’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναγκαστικόςanankastikós
- Englishearliest quotation 2012anankastic
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀνάγκη‘force, necessity’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναγκάζωanankázō‘to force, to compel’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀναγκαστικόςanankastikós
- Englishearliest quotation 2012anankastic
Earliest quotation: 2012, Matthew R. Broome, The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry: “Like many anankastics, he suffers from a disturbance in…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- ‘to reach, attain’
Today it means
adj Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἀνάγκη / anankastic