Menopause
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wiktionary
From French ménopause, from Latin menopausis, from Ancient Greek μήν(mḗn, “month”) + παῦσις(paûsis, “pause”). Equivalent to meno- + -pause. [1]
etymonline
menopause (n.)
"the final cessation of the monthly courses of women," 1852 (from 1845 as a French word in English), from French ménopause, from medical Latin menopausis, from Greek mēn (genitive mēnos) "month" (from PIE *mehnes- "moon, month," from root *me- (2) "to measure," via the notion of the moon as the measurer of time) + pausis "a cessation, a pause," from pauein "to cause to cease," a word of uncertain etymology with no certain cognates outside Greek [Beekes]. Earlier it was change of life (1834).
