The story
- Ancient Greek · derived from-ωσις“state, abnormal condition, or action”
- New Latin · learned borrowing from-ōsis
- English today-osis
Learned borrowing from New Latin -ōsis, from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.