Etymology

odynophagia

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Today it means: Severe pain in the mouth or esophagus when attempting to swallow. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ὀδύνη
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὀδύνη“pain”
  2. English todayodynophagia

From Ancient Greek ὀδύνη (odúnē, “pain”) + -phagia (“swallowing, ingestion”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.