- apoplexy (n.)
- late 14c., "sudden fit of paralysis and dizziness," from Old French apoplexie or directly from Late Latin apoplexia, from Greek apoplexia, from apoplessein "to strike down and incapacitate," from apo- "off" (see apo-), in this case probably an intensive prefix, + plessein "to hit" (compare plague (n.), also with a root sense of "stricken"). The Latin translation, sideratio, means "disease caused by a constellation."
