hemicrania

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἡμικρᾱνίᾰ
2. Late Latin · borrowed fromhemicrania“pain in one half of the head”
3. English todayhemicrania

From Late Latin hemicrania (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (from whence also cranium). Cognate to megrim and migraine, which also derive from the Latin.

Words from the same roots