英语词汇anesthesia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	anesthesia
词源	anesthesia n. 1721, "loss of feeling," medical Latin, from Greek anaisthēsia "want of feeling or perception, lack of sensation (to pleasure or pain)," abstract noun from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + aisthēsis "feeling" (from PIE root au- "to perceive"). For the abstract noun ending, see -ia. As "a procedure for the prevention of pain in surgical operations," attested from 1846. Aesthesia "capacity for feeling" is attested in English from 1853, perhaps a back-formation. Entries linking to anesthesia* an- 1 privative prefix, from Greek an-, "not, without" (from PIE root ne- "not"). The Greek prefix is a fuller form of the one represented in English by a- (3). au- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to perceive." It forms all or part of: aesthete; aesthetic; anesthesia; audible; audience; audio; audio-; audit; audition; auditor; auditorium; auditory; hyperaesthesia; kinesthetic; oyer; oyez; obedient; obey; paraesthesia; synaesthesia. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit avih, Avestan avish "openly, evidently;" Greek aisthanesthai "to feel;" Latin audire "to hear;" Old Church Slavonic javiti "to reveal." an- (1)*au--iaanaesthesia (n.)anesthesiology (n.)anesthetic (adj.)anesthetist (n.)anesthetize (v.)kinesthesia (n.) updated on September 21, 2022
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anesthesia n.

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