Etymology

psychiatrist

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Today it means: A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. Full definition →

English psychiatry ← French psychiatrie
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The story

  1. Frenchpsych-
  2. Frenchpsychiatre
  3. Frenchpsychiatrie
  4. Englishpsychiatry
  5. English todaypsychiatrist

From psychiatry + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.