Hygiene is keeping yourself and your surroundings clean to stay healthy. Personal hygiene, food hygiene, poor hygiene.
Handwashing is the single most effective measure known in medicine, and Semmelweis was ridiculed for saying so in the 1840s. Food hygiene ratings are displayed by law in some countries. The Greek means the art of health.
1nounhygieneKeeping clean in order to stay healthy.
“Poor hygiene in the kitchen made several customers ill.”
hygiene is a practice.
French hygiene comes from Greek hygieine techne, the art of health, from hygies, healthy.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷeyh₃-
Ancient Greek
ὑγιεινή (τέχνη)
French
hygiène
English, today
hygiene
Built from
From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) literally “art of health”, from ὑγιεινός (“of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (“healthy, sound”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA