The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromφόρησῐς“an act of bearing, wearing”
- English today-phoresis
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φόρησῐς (phórēsĭs, “an act of bearing, wearing”), from φορέω (phoréō, “to bear repeatedly or habitually; to be carried along”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, action noun suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.