The story
- Latin · derived frompēdiculus“louse”
- English todaypediculosis
From Latin pēdiculus (“louse”) + -osis. By surface analysis, pedic(u)le + -osis.
Words from the same roots
Latinpēdiculus all →
pediclepediculicidepediculophobiapediculus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.