The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄλγος“pain”
- English todayalgedonic
From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + ἡδονή (hēdonḗ) ‘pleasure’. Coined by Henry Rutgers Marshall in 1894.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄλγος all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.