clinic

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱley-
3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱl̥néyti
4. Proto-Hellenic*klíňňō
5. Ancient Greekκλῑ́νω (klī́nō)
6. Ancient Greekκλῑ́νη (klī́nē)
7. Ancient Greekκλῑνῐκός (klīnĭkós)
8. Late Latinclīnicus
9. Frenchclinique
10. English todayclinic

Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).