-pathia
an obsolete variant of -pathy:
psychopathia.
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- -pathic
a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -pathy: psychopathic.
- -pathy
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. -pathy combining […]
- -ped
a combining form with the meaning “having a foot” of the kind specified by the initial element: pinnatiped. also, -pede. compare -pod. -ped combining form foot or feet quadruped, centipede word origin from latin pēs, ped- foot
- -pede
variant of -ped: centipede. -ped combining form foot or feet quadruped, centipede word origin from latin pēs, ped- foot -pede combining form a variant of -ped
- -penia
a combining form used in the formation of compound words that have the general sense “lack, deficiency,” as specified by the initial element: leukopenia. -penia suff. lack; deficiency: leukopenia.