The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromleprōsārium
- French · borrowed fromléproserie
- English todayleprosery
Borrowed from French léproserie and léprosarie, from Medieval Latin leprōsārium, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -ārium (“-ary: building related to”). Equivalent to leprose + -ery.
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latinleprōsārium all →
leprosarialeprosarium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.