The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσωθιακός“Sothic”
- French · derived fromsothiaque
- English todaySothiac
From French sothiaque, ultimately from Ancient Greek σωθιακός (sōthiakós, “Sothic”), from Σῶθις (Sôthis, “Sirius”) and -κός (-kós, “-ic, forming adjectives”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.