Etymology

balneotherapy

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Today it means: The treatment of disease by bathing. Full definition →

Latin balneum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frombalneum“bath”
  2. English todaybalneotherapy

From Latin balneum (“bath”) + therapy.

Words from the same roots

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