The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσωθιακός“Sothic”
- French · derived fromsothiaque
- English todaySothic
From Sothis (“Sirius”) + -ic (forming adjectives), a variant of earlier Sothiac, from French sothiaque, ultimately from Ancient Greek σωθιακός (sōthiakós, “Sothic”), from Σῶθις (Sôthis, “Sirius”) and -κός (-kós, “-ic”, forming adjectives).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.