paralysis

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαράλυσις“palsy”
2. Latin · borrowed fromparalysis
3. English todayparalysis

Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”). By surface analysis, para- + -lysis. Doublet of palsy.

Words from the same roots