Dyspepsia
/dɪsˈpɛp.si.ə/noun
Indigestion or chronic difficulty digesting food.
Did you know?Dyspepsia comes from Greek roots where dys- means “bad” or “ill” and pepsis means “digestion,” a reminder that medicine once described bodily trouble in the same language as cosmic imbalance.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
dyspepsia
“bad digestion; indigestion”
Late Latin
Latin
dyspepsia
“indigestion”
17th Century
English
dyspepsia
“indigestion, especially as a medical condition”
Modern English
English
dyspepsia
“indigestion or impaired digestion”