The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπιληψίᾱ
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλῆψις“seizure”
- English today-lepsy
From Ancient Greek λῆψις (lêpsis, “seizure”) and epilepsy, which is from Ancient Greek ἐπιληψίᾱ (epilēpsíā).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekλῆψις all →
-leptic
Ancient Greekἐπιληψίᾱ all →
epilepsy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.