- atrophy (n.)
- "a wasting away through lack of nourishment," 1620s (atrophied is from 1590s), from French atrophie, from Late Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia "a wasting away," noun of state from atrophos "ill-fed, un-nourished," from a- "not" + trophe "nourishment," from trephein "to fatten" (see -trophy).
- atrophy (v.)
- 1822 (implied in atrophied), from atrophy (n.). Related: Atrophying.