a fit, attack, seizure: narcolepsy
also -lep′sia
Origin of -lepsy
Modern Latin -lepsia from Classical Greek -l?psia from l?psis, an attack from base of lambanein, to seize: see lemma-lepsy
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-lepsy
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Fit; seizure: narcolepsy.
Origin of -lepsy
New Latin -lēpsia from Greek -lēpsiā from lēpsis seizure from lambanein lēp- to take, seizeTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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