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- Ancient Greek · derived fromστρέφω“to twist, to avert”
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromστρέφων
- English todayStrephon
From Ancient Greek στρέφων (stréphōn), the active present participle of Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist, to avert”, verb), chiefly from its use as the name of a rustic lover in Sir Philip Sidney's 1593 pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.