-pathycomb. form

Primary stress is usually attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. neuropathy n.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek -πάθεια.

Etymology: < ancient Greek -πάθεια, combining form (in e.g. ὁμοιοπάθεια (see homoeopathy n.), συμπάθεια sympathy n.) < -παθής (see -path comb. form) + -ία -y suffix³.In sense 1 attested from the late 16th cent. (in sympathy n.; compare also antipathy n., eupathy n.). A number of such words (now mainly obsolete) were borrowed (e.g. anthropopathy n.) or coined (e.g. hylopathy n. at hylo- comb. form ) in the course of the 17th cent., but later examples are few (e.g. theopathy n., uranopathy n. at urano- comb. form¹ 1), the most notable later example being telepathy n. Scientific vocabulary includes photopathy n. In sense 2 originally in nouns borrowed from ancient Greek, sometimes via Latin, and attested from the mid 17th cent. (compare idiopathy n.) in terms referring to disorders of a specified kind, and from the 19th in terms referring to disorders of a specified part, faculty, etc. (e.g. myopathy n., logopathy n.). Although many such formations in the 19th cent. were short-lived, the latter type of formation has continued, e.g. lymphadenopathy n., porphyrinopathy n. In sense 3 modelled on homoeopathy n. and allopathy n.; examples are hydropathy n., isopathy n.

1. Forming nouns denoting kinds of feeling or ways of being affected.

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2. Forming nouns denoting diseases and disorders of a specified kind or affecting a specified part, faculty, etc.

3. Forming nouns with the sense ‘method of cure, curative treatment’.Examples of ephemeral (chiefly humorous) formations are given below.

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1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv, in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 12/1 [They tried] 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.

1888 St. James's Gaz. 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..[to express] 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.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 10/1 Never before..has light treatment taken definite shape as it is undoubtedly doing now in a distinct ‘pathy’, which our contemporary christens ‘photopathy’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

单词	-pathy
释义	-pathycomb. form Primary stress is usually attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. neuropathy n. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek -πάθεια. Etymology: < ancient Greek -πάθεια, combining form (in e.g. ὁμοιοπάθεια (see homoeopathy n.), συμπάθεια sympathy n.) < -παθής (see -path comb. form) + -ία -y suffix³.In sense 1 attested from the late 16th cent. (in sympathy n.; compare also antipathy n., eupathy n.). A number of such words (now mainly obsolete) were borrowed (e.g. anthropopathy n.) or coined (e.g. hylopathy n. at hylo- comb. form ) in the course of the 17th cent., but later examples are few (e.g. theopathy n., uranopathy n. at urano- comb. form¹ 1), the most notable later example being telepathy n. Scientific vocabulary includes photopathy n. In sense 2 originally in nouns borrowed from ancient Greek, sometimes via Latin, and attested from the mid 17th cent. (compare idiopathy n.) in terms referring to disorders of a specified kind, and from the 19th in terms referring to disorders of a specified part, faculty, etc. (e.g. myopathy n., logopathy n.). Although many such formations in the 19th cent. were short-lived, the latter type of formation has continued, e.g. lymphadenopathy n., porphyrinopathy n. In sense 3 modelled on homoeopathy n. and allopathy n.; examples are hydropathy n., isopathy n. 1. Forming nouns denoting kinds of feeling or ways of being affected. Categories » 2. Forming nouns denoting diseases and disorders of a specified kind or affecting a specified part, faculty, etc. 3. Forming nouns with the sense ‘method of cure, curative treatment’.Examples of ephemeral (chiefly humorous) formations are given below. ΚΠ 1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv, in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 12/1 [They tried] 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. 1888 St. James's Gaz. 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..[to express] 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. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 10/1 Never before..has light treatment taken definite shape as it is undoubtedly doing now in a distinct ‘pathy’, which our contemporary christens ‘photopathy’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < comb. form1862
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