From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 12:23:17 PDT
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Subject: alienist: M-W's Word of the Day
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The Word of the Day for August 26 is:
alienist \AY-lee-uh-nist\ (noun)
: psychiatrist
Example sentence:
Julius Wagner von Jauregg was a gifted alienist and
neurologist who was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine.
Did you know?
"Alienist" looks and sounds like it should mean "someone
who studies aliens," and in fact "alienist" and "alien" are
related -- both are ultimately derived from the Latin word
"alius," meaning "other." In the case of "alienist," the
etymological trail leads from Latin to French, where the
adjective "aliene" ("insane") gave rise to the noun
"alieniste," referring to a doctor who treats the insane.
"Alienist" first appeared in print in English in 1864, but it
was preceded by the other "alius" descendants "alien" (14th
century) and "alienate" (used as a verb since the early 16th
century). "Alienist" is much rarer than "psychiatrist" these
days, but at one time it was the preferred term.
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