English
hypophysis
Hypophysis comes from Ancient Greek ὑπόφυσις ‘attachment underneath’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὑπόφυσιςhupóphusis‘attachment underneath’
- Englishearliest quotation 1915hypophysis
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὑπόφυσιςhupóphusis‘attachment underneath’
- Englishearliest quotation 1915hypophysis
Earliest quotation: 1915, Wilhelm Falta, The Ductless Glandular Diseases: “CHAPTER VI / THE DISEASES OF THE HYPOPHYSIS [PITUITARY…”
A compound of ὑπό ‘from underneath’ + -σῐς + φύσις ‘origin’
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Ancient Greek ὑπό ‘from underneath’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to be, become, grow, appear’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti ‘to be becoming, to be growing, to be appearing’
Ancient Greek φῠ́ω ‘to bring forth, produce, generate, cause to grow’
Ancient Greek φύσις ‘origin’
The story
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπόφυσις (hupóphusis, literally “attachment underneath”).
Every English word from Ancient Greek ὑπόφυσις
Today it means
noun The pituitary gland.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὑπόφυσις / hypophysis