Etymograph

English

pathophysiological

Pathophysiological comes from Latin physiologicus ‘relational adjective of physiologia in the…’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEphysiologicus‘relational adjective of physiologia in the older, now-obsolete sense of natural philosophy’
  2. English1500–presentphysiological
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2010pathophysiological

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEphysiologicus‘relational adjective of physiologia in the older, now-obsolete sense of natural philosophy’
  2. English1500–presentphysiological
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2010pathophysiological

Earliest quotation: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: “What, beyond abnormal, dysregulated cell division, was the common…”

A compound of patho- + physiological

Ancient Greek πᾰ́σχω ‘to feel’

Ancient Greek πάθος ‘pain, suffering, death’

English patho-

Latin physiologicus ‘relational adjective of physiologia in the…’

English physiological

Linked words

through Latin physiologicus ‘relational adjective of physiologia in the…’

physiologic, 1 more

through English physiological

physiologically, neurophysiological

Today it means

adj Pertaining to pathophysiology.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin physiologicus / pathophysiological