The story
- Latin · derived fromnervōsa“nervous”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromᾰ̓ν-“without”
- English todayanorexia nervosa
From the scientific term anorexia nervosa (1957), from the symptom anorexia (“loss of appetite”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ν- (ăn-, “without”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite, desire”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, “-ia”), and Latin nervōsa (“nervous”).
Words from the same roots
Latinnervōsa all →
bulimia nervosa
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.