The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄκαπνος“without smoke”
- New Latin · borrowed fromacapnia
- English todayacapnia
From New Latin acapnia, from Ancient Greek ἄκαπνος (ákapnos, “without smoke”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.