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- Ancient Greek · derived fromδυστοκία“difficult childbirth”
- English todaydystocia
From Ancient Greek δυστοκία (dustokía, “difficult childbirth”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”), from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.