The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπάθος“suffering”
- Latin · derived frompēs“foot”
- English todaypedopathy
Formed as pedo- (“foot”) + -pathy (“disease”); an etymological hybrid equivalent to the Latin pēs (“foot”) + the Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpēs all →
pespedicurepetiolepedetentouspedo-suppedaneous
Ancient Greekπάθος all →
pathologypathos-pathpatho-pathognomy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.