English
anodynous
Anodynous comes from Latin anōdynos ‘stilling or relieving pain’, and goes back to Ancient Greek ὀδύνη.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὀδύνη‘pain of body’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀνώδῠνος‘allaying pain’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEanōdynosas anōdynus‘stilling or relieving pain’
- Englishearliest quotation 1671anodynous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὀδύνη‘pain of body’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἀνώδῠνος‘allaying pain’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEanōdynosas anōdynus‘stilling or relieving pain’
- Englishearliest quotation 1671anodynous
Earliest quotation: 1671, Robert Boyle, An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities. Chap: “[S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- ‘to eat’
eat, et, anna, obesity, edible, ana, ent, fret, etch, phage, esca, 21 more
Today it means
adj Anodyne.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὀδύνη / anodynous