pedo-, paedo-, and paediatrics or pediatrics

Term: pedo-, paedo-,   and paediatrics or pediatrics

Origin:

Anc Greek παις/pes(=child, infant) + ιάτωρ/iator(=healer)

Coined:

paediatrics coined by Abraham Jacobi, M.D.(1830-1919), president of the New York Academy of Medicine  who he is often called the "father of American pediatrics".   Jacobi is credited with establishing pediatrics as a separate medical discipline. 

Definition:

The Greek ped- or paed- used in English is a shortened form of the Greek pais. Pediatrics or paediatrics is defined as the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. 

Runon derivatives :

orthopedic, orthopaedic (British), pedagogue or pedagog (schoolteacher) pedophilia, pedeia or paedeia (education or social culture), pederasty or paederasty, pediatrician or paediatrician, pedodontics. 

comments:

1. Greek phycisian Soraneus from Ephesus in the 2nd century AD wrote the first known manuscript devoted to pediatrics

2. The British spelling is paed- while this in the United States is ped-. The most correct form is paed as in  the Latin ped  means "foot".