The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκέντησις“the act of pricking”
- English today-centesis
From Ancient Greek κέντησις (kéntēsis, “the act of pricking”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “I prick”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκέντησις all →
centesis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.