ephidrosis

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἱδρώς“sweat”
2. New Latin · borrowed fromhidrōsis
3. Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπί“upon, on”
4. English todayephidrosis

From ep- (“upon, on”) + hidrosis (“sweating”), from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “upon, on”) and New Latin hidrōsis, from Ancient Greek ἱδρώς (hidrṓs, “sweat”) + -sis; also synchronically held to end in the suffix -osis.

Words from the same roots