The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromθάνατος“death”
- English todaymisthanasia
A neologism coined by Brazilian bioethicists, from mis- (“badly, wrongly”) + -thanasia (as in euthanasia, dysthanasia), from Ancient Greek θάνατος (thánatos, “death”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekθάνατος all →
Thanatosthanato-thanatologythanatopicthanatopraxythanatopsis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.