analgésie

See also: analgesie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).

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Noun

analgésie f (plural analgésies)

1. analgesia

Related terms

• analgésier
• analgésique

Descendants

• → Turkish: analjezi

Further reading

• “analgésie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.