rheumatism

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromῥευματισμός“humour, discharge, rheum”
2. Latin · derived fromrheumatismus“rheum”
3. English todayrheumatism

First attested 1601, from Latin rheumatismus (“rheum”), from Ancient Greek ῥευματισμός (rheumatismós, “humour, discharge, rheum”) from ῥευματίζομαι (rheumatízomai, “to suffer from a rheum”) from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”)