https://www.etymonline.com/word/epidemic -- "epi-dēmos", "among the people".
If you hold close what the term says, and regard the use as a derivation, you develop an aware, rooted terminology.
But then, you'd lose the grounds to embrace a conventional derivation as what the term means - which is what you just condemned.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/epidemic -- "epi-dēmos", "among the people".
If you hold close what the term says, and regard the use as a derivation, you develop an aware, rooted terminology.
But then, you'd lose the grounds to embrace a conventional derivation as what the term means - which is what you just condemned.