epilepsy (a medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures or convulsions and blackouts)
çekim: çoğul epilepsziák
köken: From scientific Latin epilepsia (“epilepsy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία (epilēpsía, “seizure”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + λῆψις (lêpsis, “seizure”), from λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take hold of”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese gota (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin gutta.
aile: gotado, gotalla, gotarén, gotear, goteira
Etimoloji
From fallen (“to fall”) + Sucht (here in the old sense “illness, disease”), thus the same as English falling sickness, Dutch vallende ziekte or Swedish fallandesot. Compare also Arabic صَرْع (ṣarʕ), Estonian langetõbi, Polish padaczka, Czech padoucnice, Russian паду́чая (padúčaja) Serbo-Croatian pȁdavica, all equally derived from a word for “to fall”. From the fits which cast the patients to the…