English
proprioception
From proprioceptor, from Latin proprius (“one's own”) + reception.
Formed from proprius ‘one's own’ + reception
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
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Latin recipiō ‘receive’
Latin receptiō ‘the act of receiving’
Middle French reception
Middle English recepcion
English reception
The story
Coined by British neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington in 1906.
Today it means
noun The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / proprioception