Word origin
[1590–1600; ‹ L
paracentēsis perforation, tapping ‹ Gk
parakéntēsis, equiv. to
parakentē-, var. s. of
parakenteîn to prick beside (
para- para-1 +
kenteîn to prick, pierce) +
-sis -sis]This word is first recorded in the period 1590–1600. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: jolt, mission, operator, squeeze, tea-sis is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form from verbsabstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc. Other words that use theaffix -sis include: crisis, dieresis, ellipsis, symbiosis, thesis