Word origin
[1900–05; ‹ Czech
akathisie ‹ Gk
a- a-6 +
káthis(
is) sitting (n. deriv. of
kathízein to seat, make sit, take one's seat;
kat- cat- +
hízein to seat, akin to
sit1) + NL
-ia -ia]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, geopolitics, hookup, hormone, internship-ia is a noun suffix having restricted application in various fields, as in names ofdiseases (malaria; anemia), place names (Italia; Romania), names of Roman feasts (Lupercalia), Latin or Latinizing plurals (Amphibia; insignia; Reptilia), and in other loanwords from Latin (militia)