The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἀσθένεια
- English todayasthenia
From Ancient Greek ἀσθένεια (asthéneia), from ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “sick, weak”), from ἀ- (a-, “not, un-”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”). By surface analysis, a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -ia (“disease”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀσθένεια all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.