Schizophrenia

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early 20th century: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein ‘to split’ + phrēn ‘mind’.


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First attested 1908, from New Latin schizophrenia, from German Schizophrenie, coined by Eugen Bleuler, from Ancient Greek σχίζω(skhízō, “to split”) + φρήν(phrḗn, “mind, heart, diaphragm”) + -ia.


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schizophrenia (n.)

1912, from Modern Latin, literally "a splitting of the mind," from German Schizophrenie, coined in 1910 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), from Greek skhizein "to split" (from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split") + phrēn (genitive phrenos) "heart, mind" (hence phrenes "wits, sanity"); see phreno-.