The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀκατάληπτος“incomprehensible”
- Latin · learned borrowing fromacatalēpticus
- English todayacataleptic
From Latin acatalēpticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος (akatálēptos, “incomprehensible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “to seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.