Etymology

-path

Today it means: Used to form nouns indicating someone with a particular disorder Full definition →

Ancient Greek πάθος
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromπάθος“suffering”
  2. English today-path

From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπάθος all →

pathologypathospatho-pathognomypedopathy

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.