The story
- Latin · derived fromdistālis“~distant”
- Latin · derived frompars“part”
- Latin · derived frompars distālis
- English todaypars distalis
First attested in English in 1913 or prior: from scientific Latin pars distālis, from classical Latin pars (“part”) + post-classical Latin distālis (“~distant”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpars all →
partialparse
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.