The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδυσ-“hard, difficult, bad”
- New Latin · derived fromdys-
- English todaydys-
From New Latin dys-, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “hard, difficult, bad”). Often confused with the separately derived prefix dis-.
Words from the same roots
New Latindys- all →
dysgenic
Ancient Greekδυσ- all →
dyslexiadystopiaDesdemonadyscalculiadysbiosisdysgenic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.