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See also: pathy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /-pəθi/

Suffix

-pathy

suffering, feeling, emotion
sympathy, antipathy, empathy
damage to, disease of, disorder of, or abnormality
neuropathy, psychopathy, sociopathy
therapy, treatment, method, cure, curative treatment
hydropathy, homeopathy, naturopathy

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -pathy

aminoacidopathy

bestrophinopathy

cenesthesiopathy

characteropathy

cholecystopathy

complementopathy

cryopyrinopathy

dysferlinopathy

dystroglycanopathy

encephalomyelopathy

encephalomyeloradiculoneuropathy

encephalomyopathy

endotheliopathy

epicondylopathy

erythrocytopathy

gammaglobulinopathy

haemoglobinopathy

hemoglobinopathy

hepatosplenopathy

interferonopathy

labyrinthopathy

leukoencephalopathy

minicolumnopathy

mitochondriopathy

neurocristopathy

pachychoroidopathy

polyendocrinopathy

radiculoplexopathy

sarcoglycanopathy

Related terms

Translations

in whichever sense

Bulgarian: -па́тия f (-pátija)
Catalan: -patia (ca) f
Estonian: -paatia
Finnish: -patia
French: -pathie (fr) f
German: -pathie (de) f
Greek: -πάθεια (el) f (-pátheia)
Hungarian: -pátia
Polish: -patia (pl) f
Russian: -патия f (-patija)
Spanish: -patía (es) f
Welsh: -patheg f, -pathi

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