-pathy
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Feeling; suffering; perception:
表“感情”；“痛苦”“感知”：
telepathy.
心灵感应 - Disease:
表“疾病”：
neuropathy.
神经病 - A system of treating disease:
表“疗法”：
homeopathy.
顺势疗法
语源
- Greek -patheia
希腊语 -patheia - from pathos * see k went(h)-
源自 pathos *参见 k went(h)-
-pathy
combining form in countable noun
indicating feeling, sensitivity, or perception
⇒
telepathy
indicating disease or a morbid condition
⇒
psychopathy
indicating a method of treating disease
⇒
osteopathy
Derived Forms
-pathic combining form in adjectiveOrigin
from Greek patheia suffering; see pathos-pathy
Word Origin
1
a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “suffering,” “feeling” (antipathy; sympathy); in compound words of modern formation, often used with the meaning “morbid affection,” “disease” (arthropathy; deuteropathy; neuropathy; psychopathy), and hence used also in names of systems or methods of treating disease (allopathy; homeopathy; hydropathy; osteopathy).
Compare -path, -pathia.
Origin
combining form representing Greek pátheia suffering, feeling, equivalent to páth(os) pathos + -eia -y3
Related Words
- -path
- -pathia
- -pathic
- acropathy
- adenopathy
- allelopathy
-pathya word element meaning 'suffering', 'feeling', as in anthropopathy, antipathy, sympathy, and often, especially in words of modern formation, 'morbid affection', 'disease', as in neuropathy, psychopathy, and hence used also in names of systems or methods of treating disease, as in homeopathy, osteopathy.
[Greek -patheia]-pathy
noun combining form
empathy
: perception
telepathy
2. disorder of (such) a part or kind
neuropathy
3. system of medicine based on (such) a factor
osteopathy
noun combining form
ETYMOLOGY Latin -pathia, from Greek -patheia, from -pathēs suffering, from pathos
1. feeling : sufferingempathy
: perception
telepathy
2. disorder of (such) a part or kind
neuropathy
3. system of medicine based on (such) a factor
osteopathy
-pathy
combining form
1.
- denoting feelings表示“感情”, “感觉”：
-
telepathy.
2.
- denoting disorder in a particular part of the body表示“疾病”：
-
neuropathy.
3.
- relating to curative treatment of a specified kind表示“疗法”：
-
hydropathy.
词源
from Greek patheia 'suffering, feeling'.
1863 Kingsley Water-Bab. iv,Hydropathy..Pyropathy, as successfully employed by the old inquisitors to cure the malady of thought... Geopathy, or burying him. Atmopathy, or steaming him... With all other ipathies and opathies which Noodle has invented, and Foodle tried. [ They tried]
1888 St. James'sGaz. 20 Sept.,Pelopathy, or treatment by means of mud baths... Raxopathy, or the grape-cure, is more favoured in vine-producing countries than it is in England. Glossopathy is now added to the list.. the good effects which dogs can produce upon suffering humanity by applying their tongues to wounds and sores. This gentleman is now collecting a staff of suitable dogs, with a view to opening a glossopathic establishment in the neighbourhood of Zurich. [ to express]
1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 10/1Never before..has light treatment taken definite shape as it is undoubtedly doing now in a distinct ‘pathy’, which our contemporary christens ‘photopathy’.
-pathy
word-forming element meaning "feeling, suffering, emotion; disorder, disease," from Latin -pathia, from Greek -patheia "act of suffering, feeling" (see pathos). Meaning "system of treatment of disease" is abstracted from homeopathy, q.v..
ORIGIN: Greek -patheia suffering, feeling: see -y 32 homeopathy
-pathy
combining form.
feeling; emotion: Antipathy = a hostile feeling.
disease: Psychopathy = mental disease.
treatment of disease in or by _____: Osteopathy = treatment of disease in bones. Hydropathy = treatment of disease by the use of water.
[< Greek -pátheia act or quality of suffering; feeling < páthos; see etym. at pathos]
-pa·thy
\pəthē, -thi\ noun combining form
(-es)
Etymology: Latin -pathia, from Greek -patheia, from path-, stem of paschein to experience, suffer — more at pathos
1. : feeling — suffering
< apathy >
< telepathy >
2. : disease of a (specified) part or kind
< idiopathy >
< myopathy >
3. : therapy or system of therapy based on a (specified) unitary theory of disease or its treatment
< homeopathy >
1.
< apathy >
< telepathy >
2.
< idiopathy >
< myopathy >
3.
< homeopathy >
-pathy
Suffix
- suffering, feeling
- sympathy, antipathy, empathy
- Damage to, disease of, or abnormality
- neuropathy, psychopathy, sociopathy
- therapy
- hydropathy
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Related terms
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -pathy