Etymology — The origins of English words

From either pamp (“clipping of pamper; a diaper”) + -ie (“forms diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns”) or pamps (“clipping of pampers; a diaper”) + -ie.

From path + line.

Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.

Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- + -geny.

From piquant + -ness.

From photo + synthesize.

From pansy + -fy + -ed.

Borrowed from Latin phyllon, from Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”). Doublet of phyllo, distantly also with foil, folio, and folium.

From politic + -ly.

From Latin parturitiō (“parturition”), from parturiō, from pariō (“to give birth”).

From Latin perennō.

A learned borrowing, after concept, from Classical Latin perceptum (“a proposition, principle, general idea”), from the neuter of perceptus (“perceived”), the past participle of percipiō (“to perceive”); see perceive. Coined by the Scottish metaphysician Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, published posthumously in 1860 (see the quotation).

From French précenteur, from Latin praecentor, from praecentus (“sung before”), from praecinō (“to sing before”) + -or (“agent suffix”), from prae- + canĕre (“to sing”).

A variant of Pablum, the name of a food supplement for malnourished infants developed in 1931 by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Mead Johnson & Company, probably a shortening of Latin pābulum (“fodder for animals; food, nourishment”), from pā(scō) (“to feed, nourish; to drive to pasture; to support; to tend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, ward; to shepherd”)) + -bulum (suffix denoting an instrument) (from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix denoting an instrument or tool))), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (from *peh₂- + *-dʰlom). The name was trademarked in the United States in 1932.

From Latin Pompeiānus, from Pompeius + -ānus. By surface analysis, Pompey + -ian.

From American Spanish quiniela perfecta (“perfect quinella”).

From Platonic after -ics.

(of surname) a variant of Perrett.

Variant of Parrott.

Borrowed from Latin periculosus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”). Doublet of perilous.

From plaster + work.

From part + way.

From pig + stick.

From presage + -ful.