The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλήσσειν“to strike”
- English todayquadriplegia
From quadri- (“four”) + -plegia, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegia.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπλήσσειν all →
quadriplegictetraplegic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.