dementia
dih-MEN-shuh · noun
Origin
Latin dēmentia was built from dē- ("away, from") plus mēns ("mind"), with the noun-forming suffix -ia attached to the stem dēment-. English borrowed the word directly from this Latin form.
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Related words
Dementia shares its root mēns, "mind," with any English word built on that same Latin stem — the mind is baked right into the word's core.