pneumon-

English

Etymology

From πνεῠμον- (pneumon-), the stem of the Ancient Greek πνεῠ́μων (pneúmōn), a variant of πλεῠ́μων (pleúmōn, “lung”); compare the German pneumono-.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: (p)nyo͞omŏn, (p)nyo͞omən, IPA^(key): /(p)njuːmɒn/, /(p)njuːmən/

Prefix

pneumon-

lung

Usage notes

When combined with a word or another affix which begins with a consonant, this prefix concatenates with -o- (as pneumono-).
This prefix is sometimes erroneously abbreviated to pneum-.

Derived terms

► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:English_words_prefixed_with_pneumon-'>English words prefixed with pneumon-</a>

References

“Pneumono-” listed on pages 1,033–1,034 of volume 7 (O–P) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st Ed.; 1909]
Pneumono- (pniūmono, niū-), before a vowel pneumon-, combining form of Gr. πνεύμων, πνεύμον- lung. (Often contracted to Pneumo-.)
“pneumono-” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
(pnjuːməʊnəʊ, njuː-)
“pneumono-, comb. form” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Dec. 2009]
< ancient Greek πνεύμον-, πνεύμων, variant […] of πλεύμων lung

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