Etymology

-strophy

Today it means: Used to form nouns indicating a turn or twist of the indicated kind Full definition →

Ancient Greek στροφή
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromστροφή“a turn, bend, twist”
  2. English today-strophy

From Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekστροφή all →

strophestrophiole

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.