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Since "diabetes" means an increase in amount of urine flow
This intrigued me. The things you learn here.
A bit more detail:
Middle English diabete, from Medieval Latin diabētēs, from Latin, from Greek, siphon, diabetes, from diabainein, to cross over, straddle : dia-, dia- + bainein, to go.
Diabetes is named for one of its distressing symptoms. The disease was known to the Greeks as diabētēs, a word derived from the verb diabainein, made up of the prefix dia, across, apart, and the word bainein, to walk, stand. The verb diabeinein meant to stride, walk, or stand with legs asunder; hence, its derivative diabētēs meant one that straddles, or specifically a compass, siphon. The sense siphon gave rise to the use of diabētēs as the name for a disease involving the discharge of excessive amounts of urine. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425.
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