Word origin
[1900–05;
arthro- + Gk
désis binding together, equiv. to
dé(
ein) to bind +
-sis -sis]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, decompression, elder statesman, geopolitics, hookup-sis is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form from verbsabstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc. Other words that use theaffix -sis include: anamnesis, anamorphosis, ellipsis, prolepsis, symbiosis