English
anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis comes from French anaphylaxie.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentanaphylaxie
- Englishearliest quotation 2024anaphylaxis
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentanaphylaxie
- Englishearliest quotation 2024anaphylaxis
Earliest quotation: 2024, Meg Tirrell: “Anyone who has experienced or witnessed an anaphylaxis reaction…”
A compound of ᾰ̓νᾰ́ ‘to, again, upon’ + φύλαξις ‘protection, watching, guarding’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- ‘on, onto’
Proto-Hellenic *aná ‘up, upon’
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ ‘to, again, upon’
Ancient Greek φῠ́λᾰξ ‘watcher, guard’
Ancient Greek φῠλᾰ́σσω ‘to watch, guard, protect, defend’
Ancient Greek φύλαξις ‘protection, watching, guarding’
The story
Borrowed from French anaphylaxie, coined by French physiologist and parapsychologist Charles Richet and French zoologist Paul Portier from the Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “(intensifier) thoroughly”) from ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ, “to, again, upon”) and φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “protection, watching, guarding”).
Every English word from French anaphylaxie
Today it means
noun Extreme sensitivity to a substance such as a foreign protein or drug.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French anaphylaxie / anaphylaxis